weeds
nounverbnounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//wiːdz//
Clothes.
noun
- 1
Also a form of weedplural of weed
Etymology
Inflected form of weed.
verb
- 1
Also a form of weedthird-person singular simple present indicative of weed
noun
- 1
obsoleteClothes.
Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
What sight is this? What company of women Is wending hitherward, in sable weeds Conspicuous?
Etymology
From Old English wǣd, wǣde, from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz (“piece of cloth, garment”).