Noah Webster
Clothing
CLOTHING, participle present tense Covering with or putting on vestments of any kind; providing with garments; investing; covering.
CLOTHING, noun
1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
As for me--my clothing was sackcloth. Psalms 35:13.
2. The art or practice of making cloth.
The king took measures to instruct the refugees from Flanders in the art of clothing