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单词 clotheless
释义 clotheless, a.|kləʊðlɪs|
Also 4–6 clothles, 6–8 cloath-.
[f. cloth in its earlier sense of clothing, garment + -less. Since that sense became obsolete, clothesless is substituted by some.]
Without clothes, destitute of clothing.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋269 In famyne, in thurst, in coold and cloothlees [v.r. clothles] and ones stoned almoost to the deeth.a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867) 9 Clatheles or nakede.c1440York Myst. xlviii. 287 Whanne I was clothles ȝe me cledde.1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) 24/1 Ye sholde go sholesse & clothelesse.1591R. Turnbull St. James 121 Him that hath purse pennilesse: bodie cloathlesse.1797Monthly Rev. XXIII. 571 Wandering hordes, clotheless, roofless, and ferocious.1847W. E. Forster in Reid Life I. 193 Women and children almost clotheless.
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