Also 6 clais, 8 clayis, claise. Sc. and north. dial. form of CLOTHES.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., 96. He ordand that na scottis man suld veir ony clais but hardyn cotis.

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1724.  Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), I. 85. [She] pat on her claise.

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a. 1800.  J. Sibbald, Chron. Scot. Poetry (1802), III. 237 (Jam.). My clayis grew threid bair on my bak.

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1816.  Scott, Antiq., ix. ‘Rab Tull bang’d out o’ bed, and till some of his readiest claes.’

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1863.  Robson, Bards of Tyne, 429. The claes-wives lost a’ their fine goons.

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