claes
(kleːz)
Also 6 clais, 8 clayis, claise.
Sc. and north. dial. form of clothes.
| 1549 Compl. Scot. 96 He ordand that na scottis man suld veir ony clais but hardyn cotis. 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 85 [She] pat on her claise. a 1800 J. Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poetry (1802) III. 237 (Jam.) My clayis grew threid bair on my bak. 1816 Scott Antiq. ix, ‘Rab Tull bang'd out o' bed, and till some of his readiest claes’. 1863 Robson Bards Tyne 430 The claes-wives lost a' their fine goons. |