Clothing

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Old English (only recorded in the past participle geclāded ), from clāth (see cloth).

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From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe +‎ -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading(“clothing”), Dutch kleding(“clothing”), German Kleidung(“clothing”), Danish klædning(“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning(“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding.

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clothing (n.)

c. 1200, "action of dressing in clothes," verbal noun from clothe. From late 13c. as "clothes collectively, raiment, apparel;" 1590s as an adjective.