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Meanings of decently clad in English

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Usage of decently clad in English
1
For keeping body and soul together; for keeping body barely decently clad.
The Grain of Dust: A Novel
2
He said they came now decently clad to church and market.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
3
The mill hands trooping past looked clean, rosy and cheerful, and were decently clad.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
4
All the world lives well, is decently clad, learns something, is awake and interested.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
5
One would wish to go abroad decently clad.
Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea
6
His salary at Longmeadows just sufficed to keep him decently clad and to support him during the holidays.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
7
Three or four decently clad women in black came forward into the vaulted passage, and smiled and nodded awkwardly.
Taquisara
8
But as my view would be distorted by the red dressing-gown, I shall wait until she is decently clad.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
9
According to stipulation the messenger from the tenements on the Fagutal was a decently clad woman of inconspicuously respectable appearance.
The Unwilling Vestal
10
She could barely keep the two children decently clad, and she could not give them the food growing children need.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
11
The family were decently clad; none of them were ragged or slovenly, even when their dress consisted of the coarsest material.
The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign / Why It Exists, and How I...
12
The lovely form of the Daughter of Man ( decently clad) was transmitted by television to every receiver in the world.
Last and First Men
13
Here and there at the tables sat men both ragged and decently clad, like laboring-men or petty tradesmen, and a few women drinking tea.
What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow
14
Virginia and I set out at liberty to Florence, decently clad, decently shod, with the remains of our ten florins in my breeches pocket.
The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
15
I remember one cripple, a young man rather decently clad, who sat huddled up against the wall, holding a painted board on his knees.
Redburn. His First Voyage / Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and...
16
There are not over half a dozen decently clad people among them all, and two of these are horsemen, simply remaining over night, like myself.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I / From San Francisco to...
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Decently clad across language varieties
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