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Meanings of underclothes in English

Portuguese
roupa íntima
Catalan
roba interior
Spanish
ropa interior

Undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments.

roupa íntima
Usage of underclothes in English
1
They had given him new underclothes and a clean suit of overalls.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
2
You get up and lay your underclothes away in the bureau drawers.
The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel
3
How under the sun am I to go about in my underclothes.
A Voyage with Captain Dynamite
4
But he rolled into my marmalade and underclothes and against the trap-door.
The Sea-Wolf
5
Then they knotted their sheets together, and tied the underclothes into bundles.
With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
6
Old Mrs. Shimerda knit yards and yards of lace for her underclothes.
My Antonia
7
Wolgast stripped to his underclothes and told Amy to do the same.
The passage
8
The older woman was kneeling by a chest, folding underclothes into it.
The Secret Eleanor
9
De Soya closes his eyes and pulls on his underclothes and cassock.
The Hyperion Cantos
10
We looked at them in turn: the blue dress, the shoes, the underclothes.
Naomi’s Room
11
We brought some underclothes; didn't know what shape you'd be in.
Still Jim
12
This time the drawer containing her underclothes was all shaken up.
Ghosts
13
She kept outside the circle, wondering about his socks and underclothes.
A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
14
When I was your age I had one suit of underclothes.
Smoke Bellew
15
They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers and wore a special kind of underclothes.
The voyage of the dawn treader
16
I won't bother with baggage-someshirts and underclothes in my suitcase.
One of Ours
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