clothing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CLOTHING, participle present tense Covering with or putting on vestments of any kind; providing with garments; investing; covering. CLOTHING, noun 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. As for me--my clothing was sackcloth. Psalms 35:13. 2. The art or practice of making cloth. The king took measures to instruct the refugees from Flanders in the art of clothing
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