Crossword-Solution: PLAINCLOTHES 12 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CAEEMZ
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eruption
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Sentences with PLAINCLOTHES (5)

Then she faced about and sat still while the Rubberneck auto stopped at the flash of the badge under the coat of the plainclothes man.
The Four Million O. Henry 2001
Hurry." I think I shall never get straight in my mind the fearful five minutes that followed, the battering at the door, the oaths, the scuffle outside, the crash as the sofa, bureau, table, and chairs all yielded at once--and my relief when I saw the square-set, honest face of O'Connor and half a dozen plainclothes men holding the yeggs who would certainly have murdered us this time to protect their pal in his getaway.
The Poisoned Pen Arthur B. Reeve 2004
They are not in the secret.” “I feel like a convict arrested by plainclothes men,” complained Harry, glancing before and behind.
The Whole Family William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jordan, John Kendrick Bangs, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edith Wyatt, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Alice Brown, Henry Van Dyke 2004
The sergeant detailed several roundsmen, and a man in plainclothes, and together we returned to the house, laying a careful plan to surround it secretly, while the plainclothesman and I obtained admittance.
The Exploits of Elaine Arthur B. Reeve 2004
Put your best plainclothes man on to him at once--he'll easily know him from the description I gave you--and let him shadow him wherever he goes.
The Paradise Mystery J. S. Fletcher 2004

Quotes with PLAINCLOTHES (1)

One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he is upending two long poles intertwined with canvas. The long-drawn-out death within life. The burial-alive of the mind, covering it over with fresh graveyard earth each time it tries to struggle through to the light. In this kind of death you never finish dying.("New York Blues")
Cornell Woolrich Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1978–2024).