clothing

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.

   Marco runs a clothing brand.

2. 2
   noun

   An act or instance of putting clothes on.

   The clothing and unclothing of the idols was of special significance.

3. 3
   noun

   The art or process of making cloth.

   [M]any of the poor diſtreſſed People, being bereft of their Habitation, came into England, vvhere the King, in Compaſſion of their Condition, and alſo, conſidering that they might be beneficial to his Subjects, by instructing them in the Art of Cloathing, firſt placed them about Carliſle in the North, and after removed them into South-VVales, vvhere their Poſterity hath ever ſince remained.

4. 4
   noun

   a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

5. 5
   verb

   present participle and gerund of clothe

6. 6
   noun

   A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.

Etymology

From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding.