plain sailing
clear sailing
easy going | easy unobstructed progress, after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing |
| swaddling clothes | restrictions placed on the immature |
plain turkey
Choriotis australis | popular Australian game bird |
plain wanderer
Pedionomus torquatus | small Australian bird related to the button quail, classified as wading bird but inhabits plains |
| clothes moth | any of several small yellowish or buffolored moths whose larvae eat organic matter e.g. woolens |
casemaking clothes moth
Tinea pellionella | the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins |
webbing clothes moth
webbing moth
Tineola bisselliella | moth that forms a web in which it lives |
apparel
wearing apparel
dress clothes | clothing in general, she was refined in her choice of apparel, he always bought his clothes at the same store, fastidious about his dress |
civilian clothing
civilian dress
civilian garb
plain clothes | ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc. |
clothes closet
clothespress | a closet where clothes are stored |
clothes dryer
clothes drier | a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing |
clothes hamper
laundry basket
clothes basket
voider | a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried |
clothespin
clothes pin
clothes peg | wood or plastic fastener, for holding clothes on a clothesline |
clothes tree
coat tree
coat stand | an upright pole with pegs or hooks on which to hang clothing |
coat hanger
clothes hanger
dress hanger | a hanger that is shaped like a person's shoulders and used to hang garments on |
formalwear
eveningwear
evening dress
evening clothes | attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening |
knit knit stitch
plain
plain stitch | a basic knitting stitch |
plain weave
taffeta weave | a basic style of weave in which the weft and warp threads intertwine alternately to produce a checkerboard effect |
| street clothes | ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.) |
suit
suit of clothes | a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color, they buried him in his best suit |
Sunday best
Sunday clothes | the best attire you have which is worn to church on Sunday |
swaddling clothes
swaddling bands | a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant |
| plain flour | flour that does not contain a raising agent |
| Nullarbor Plain | a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight, has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited, the site of a major rocket research center |
Serengeti
Serengeti Plain | a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife |
alluvial flat
alluvial plain | a flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water |
| coastal plain | a plain adjacent to a coast |
floodplain
flood plain | a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding |
plain
field
champaign | extensive tract of level open land, they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain, he longed for the fields of his youth |
salt flat
salt plain | a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water |
couturier
fashion designer
clothes designer
designer | someone who designs clothing |
complain
kick
plain
sound off
quetch
kvetch | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness, My mother complains all day, She has a lot to kick about |
plain
bare
spare
unembellished
unornamented | lacking embellishment or ornamentation, a plain hair style, unembellished white walls, functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete |
homely
plain | lacking in physical beauty or proportion, a homely child, several of the buildings were downright homely, a plain girl with a freckled face |
plain
unvarnished | free from any effort to soften to disguise, the plain and unvarnished truth, the unvarnished candor of old people and children |
apparent
evident
manifest
patent
plain
unmistakable | clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment, the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields, evident hostility, manifest disapproval, patent advantages, made his meaning plain, it is plain that he is no reactionary, in plain view |
| plain unpatterned | lacking patterns especially in color |
| plain | not elaborate or elaborated, simple, plain food, stuck to the plain facts, a plain blue suit, a plain rectangular brick building |
plain
sheer
unmingled
unmixed | not mixed with extraneous elements, plain water, sheer wine, not an unmixed blessing |
| plain-woven | (of cloth) made in plain weave |
obviously
evidently
manifestly
patently
apparently plainly
plain | unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'), the answer is obviously wrong, she was in bed and evidently in great pain, he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list, it is all patently nonsense, she has apparently been living here for some time, I thought he owned the property, but apparently not, You are plainly wrong, he is plain stubborn |