Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural Clothes worn next to the skin, beneath one's outer clothing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Garments worn under others; specifically, those worn next the skin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural Clothes worn under others, especially those worn next the skin for warmth; underwear.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun plurale tantum clothes worn next to the skin and underneath outer clothing

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments

Etymologies

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under +‎ clothes

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Examples

  • Her underclothes is that stained up with it that I'm ashamed to hang 'em out.

    Tish 1916

  • Christiane Passevant: In the film we see that Fulla's body has undergone certain changes, such as underclothes incorporated into her very body.

    CounterPunch 2009

  • When I got better and could talk as much as I pleased, she wanted to know how many of us there were, what we did, and how we did it: what we ate, and what kind of underclothes we wore in winter, and how many times a week we bathed all over; when we got up, and what we studied, and how long we sewed each day, and how long we played, and when we went to bed -- and all sorts of other things.

    Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" Kate Langley Bosher 1898

  • This leads Justice Stephen Breyer to query whether this is all that different from asking Redding to “change into a swimming suit or your gym clothes,” because, “why is this a major thing to say strip down to your underclothes, which children do when they change for gym?”

    Tomorrow’s Supreme Court Rumors Today « Gerry Canavan 2009

  • Spring and a release from scratchy underclothes and chilblains and runny noses and afternoon dusk and drafty passages.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • When his sectioning was renewed, Henry would scratch his arms, bang his head against the wall, go barefoot, refuse to wear underclothes, and then, just as we were despairing, he would rally and become calmer and more rational.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • When his sectioning was renewed, Henry would scratch his arms, bang his head against the wall, go barefoot, refuse to wear underclothes, and then, just as we were despairing, he would rally and become calmer and more rational.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • I was running late so I rushed into my underclothes and outfit before I plopped down on the bed.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • I was running late so I rushed into my underclothes and outfit before I plopped down on the bed.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • Only when people started to change their underclothes at short intervals was the body louse no longer able to complete its development of about three weeks duration on the host.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

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