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noun
Clothing, attire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, uncountable
Qualifier: Northen England
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verb
To clothe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, transitive
Qualifier: Northen England
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History
From Middle English clethen, from Old English clǣþan (“to clothe”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan (“to clothe”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþijaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick to, adhere”). Cognate with Scots cleed, cleid (“to clothe”). Doublet of cloth, clothe, and clad.
