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Meanings of clothes in English

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All coverings designed to be worn on a person's body.

Portuguese
roupas

Clothing in general.

roupas
Usage of clothes in English
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A very fine set of clothes, yes sir, yes indeed, very fine.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
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The ready-to-wear clothes industry, New York's major industry, is almost exclusively Jewish.
Hermit in paris: autobiographical writings
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But her story runs far deeper than simply wearing the right clothes.
BBC
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No animals he'd ever seen wore clothes, and none ever carried weapons.
The Valley of Horses
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In the Middle East, for instance, this means longer clothes, he said.
The Guardian
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This is particularly the case when clothes for work are under consideration.
The Irish Times
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The plain-clothes special agents protect the President, First Family, Vice-President and family.
The Irish Times
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The clothes were of good quality, although none of them was new.
American Gods
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A new process to dye clothes using bacteria could bring environmental benefits.
BBC
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New clothes or toys for the children were out of the question.
97 orchard: an edible history of five immigrant families in one ...
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Don't let a fine suit of clothes try to tell you different.
God’s Little Acre
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The gowns protect health workers' clothes from droplets that might contain Covid-19.
Radio NZ
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Her father Mahmud says some of the clothes are sold in Europe.
Reuters
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I love fashion, but I haven't really got any free clothes yet.
The Guardian
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For them KK meant, quite simply: Koschere Kleiderfabrik -kosher clothes factory.
Melnitz
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It was a good thing he had brought a change of clothes.
A necessary evil
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