NOUN
- ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc.
How To Use plain clothes In A Sentence
- Police officers in plain clothes were to mingle with the audience. Times, Sunday Times
- In one of the pictures, Runggye Adak is looking directly at the tough-looking guy in the white shirt (his black armband on his upper right sleeve indicates that he could be a citizen monitor of some sort who helps to maintain public order), who is perhaps translating for a Chinese plain clothes security official. Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage
- The men are in plain clothes and wear light raincoats or light overcoats over their uniforms.
- Unfortunately, the driver was a plain clothes police officer, who quickly pieced the whole story together.
- They don't look any different from regular clerks or salesmen, with their plain clothes and common haircuts.
- Three officers in plain clothes told me to get out of the car.
- She's in plain clothes.
- A burly gentleman in plain clothes is insisting that we need a permit to photograph Burns outside Lenin's tomb.
- A policeman with plain clothes stood a dozen paces behind me watching me.
- Now regarded as a dangerous subversive, Emmeline was watched by plain clothes detectives.
