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claes

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Clothes.

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  • noun Scotland clothes

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Examples

  • "His claes were a 'awry, and he keep't looking ahint him."

    The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892

  • One of my greatest enjoyments when a child was in going out with the servants to the Calton, and wait while the "claes" bleached in the sun on the grassy slopes of the hill.

    James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

  • Ither laddies may ha's finer claes, and may be better fed,

    July 24, 2005 Laban 2005

  • Ither laddies may ha's finer claes, and may be better fed,

    Little Jamie Laban 2005

  • Ither laddies may ha's finer claes, and may be better fed,

    Archive 2005-07-24 Laban 2005

  • Nay doot ye'll thieve the winding claes from my corpse to make cloots for your snotty-nosed bairns, and where's my good brooch I said I wanted to be buried with?

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • 'Te gan te the toon te buy some claes for wor little Billy and Jane:

    Wor Nannys a Mazer 2000

  • It'd tak 'a washerwoman his claes to rub and scrub,

    Fitba' Crazy 1999

  • Noo, I get up the stair again, I was seekin 'oot my claes

    The Overgate 1954

  • And before she went away she would be telling me: 'Never be offering her boots or claes when the snaw comes, Sandy, for the Broonie

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

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  • chained_bear commented on the word claes

    "'Embroidery silk,' she said, in answer to his questioning look. 'From Mrs. Buchanan.' ...

    'What's wrong with embroidery silk?'

    'Nothing. It's what it's for. ... She said it's for our winding claes.' ...

    'Winding cl—oh, you mean shrouds?'

    'Yes. Evidently, it's my wifely duty to sit down the morning after the wedding and start spinning cloth for my shroud. ... That way, I'll have it woven and embroidered by the time I die in childbirth. And if I'm a fast worker, I'll have time to make one for you, too—otherwise your next wife will have to finish it!'"

    —Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 95–96

    January 19, 2010

  • MaryW commented on the word claes

    At a merchant's in the Luckenbooths I had myself fitted out: none too fine, for I had no idea to appear like a beggar on horseback; but comely and responsible, so that servants should respect me. Thence to an armourer's, where I got a plain sword, to suit with my degree in life. . . . The porter, who was naturally a man of some experience, judge my accoutrement to be well chosen.

    "Naething kenspeckle," said he; "plain, dacent claes. As for the rapier, nae doubt it sits wi' your degree; but an I had been you, I would has waired my siller better-gates than that."
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona (1892), pt. I, ch. 1

    November 19, 2015