Plural of clothing; multiple garments or sets of clothes, or various types of clothing items.
From clothing (garments collectively) + -s (plural marker). Clothing itself comes from clothe + -ing (making it both a noun and gerund form), dating to Middle English.
While 'clothing' is usually uncountable (like 'water' or 'furniture'), the plural 'clothings' appears in specialized contexts like fashion history or archaeological descriptions where researchers need to distinguish between different categories or styles of garments from different periods.
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