Collocations withclothes
These are words often used in combination withclothes.
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casual clothes
If you're not dressed up, if you're wearing very casual clothes, then you're going to treat everything very casually in a way.
From theCambridge English Corpus
civilian clothes
He has become so disciplined; he does not wear civilian clothes anymore.
From theCambridge English Corpus
clothes dryer
For comparison, a typical screen in a clothes dryer has a nylon 23x23 mesh screen.
From
Wikipedia
dirty clothes
I had to wear dirty clothes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
fancy clothes
If he likes to dress in fancy clothes, why should he not?
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Hansard archive
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fashionable clothes
I suppose that boys will be boys—they will wear the latest fashionable clothes, drive the latest fashionable cars and acquire the latest fashionable goods.
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Hansard archive
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mourning clothes
Funerals tend to be smaller and simpler and the custom of wearing mourning clothes has almost passed away.
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Hansard archive
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swaddling clothes
Indeed, history may well show that now was the time when civil aviation was just getting out of its swaddling clothes.
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Hansard archive
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warm clothes
At the time of our research nobody ever wore warm clothes, no means of cover were known.
From theCambridge English Corpus
wet clothes
The effects of inhalation, contemporaries argued, were exacerbated by exposure to extremes of temperature, the wearing of wet clothes, and the exertion of lengthy ladder climbs.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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