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Classification of Saint-Émilion wine
The Saint-Émilion classification (classement des crus de Saint-Émilion) is Bordeaux's only regularly revised wine ranking, created by the INAO in 1955 and re-evaluated about every decade; the 2022 edition lists 85 estates, with Figeac and Pavie as the two Premiers Grands Crus Classés A.
Clean girl aesthetic
The clean girl aesthetic is a minimalist beauty, fashion, and lifestyle trend popularized on TikTok in late 2021, defined by dewy skin, no-makeup makeup, slicked-back hair, gold hoops, and neutral clothing, later tied to Hailey Bieber's Rhode and criticized for exclusivity.
Clean-in-place
Clean-in-place (CIP) cleans installed process equipment without disassembly by circulating cleaning solutions; used in dairies, food plants, and pharma, with raw/pasteurized system segregation, monitored temperature, time, and concentration, and validated rinse or swab sampling.
Cleavage (breasts)
Cleavage is the hollow between a woman's supported breasts, especially as exposed by a low-cut garment; anatomically the intermammary cleft. The clothing sense of the word dates to 1946; décolletage peaked in Rococo fashion, vanished after 1785, and was shunned in the monobosom era.
Cleaver
Cleaver: a large rectangular-bladed knife. The Western meat cleaver (300 g–3 kg) chops through bone; the Chinese cleaver (caidao, 菜刀) is a thin chef's-knife-style slicer for vegetables and boneless meat that chips on bone.
Clement Freud
Sir Clement Freud (1924-2009), Berlin-born British writer, broadcaster, chef and Liberal MP for Isle of Ely 1973-87; grandson of Sigmund Freud, brother of Lucian; four decades on Just a Minute; accused posthumously of abuse.
Clerical clothing
Clerical clothing is the everyday distinctive dress of ordained Christian clergy, distinct from liturgical vestments: the cassock, black suit with Roman collar, clergy shirt, and Protestant Geneva gown, with history from the early church to modern norms.
Clerical collar
Clerical collar, also Roman collar or dog collar: a stiff white band or tab worn with a black shirt or cassock by Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist and many Presbyterian clergy; a modern garment of the 19th century used as recognizable street dress, not a vestment.
Clinking glasses
Clinking glasses: striking drinking vessels together during a toast. Origin undocumented; the poison-testing legend is apocryphal, while lead crystal acoustics and trust rituals are better-supported explanations.
Clitoral hood piercing
Clitoral hood piercing: a female genital piercing through the hood skin above the clitoris, most commonly the vertical clitoral hood (VCH) type, plus HCH and triangle placements; anatomy-dependent, with infection, migration, and nerve-injury risks.
Clitoris piercing
Clitoris piercing: a female genital piercing at or near the clitoral glans or hood, also called clit piercing. Actual glans piercing is rare due to desensitization risk; hood piercings dominate, motivated mainly by heightened sexual sensation.
Cloak
Cloak: a loose, sleeveless outer garment fastening at the neck and falling from the shoulders, worn instead of a coat; also called tilmatli, capa, Umhang. Covers typology, etymology, and world traditions.
Clog
A clog is a shoe made entirely or partly of wood, first designed to protect the feet, stockings, or other shoes from damage and water.
Clothing
Clothing: material body covering made of textiles or hides, providing thermal protection, hygiene, and social signaling. Key facts: eyed needles near 50,000 years ago, 132 million tonnes of fibre produced in 2024, 92 million tonnes of textile waste yearly.
Clothing in Africa
Clothing in Africa covers indigenous textile traditions such as kente, aṣọ-òkè, àdìrẹ and bògòlanfini, pre-colonial cloth production, colonial-era dress change, and a modern fashion industry with $15.5 billion in annual textile exports.
Clothing in ancient Egypt
Clothing in ancient Egypt: linen garments from flax, kilts for men and sheath dresses for women, draped rather than tailored, marked by social status; includes the Tarkhan Dress and beadnet dresses.
Clothing in ancient Greece
Clothing in ancient Greece: draped rectangular wool or linen garments, chiefly chiton, peplos, and himation, pinned and belted, made at home by women; known mainly from vase paintings and sculpture since few textiles survive.
Clothing in ancient Rome
Clothing in ancient Rome: the wool toga of the citizen (togatus), the matron's stola and palla, tunics with status stripes, and cloaks like the paenula and birrus; wool and linen textiles, Diocletian's 301 CE price edict, and the late-antique shift from toga to cloak.
Clothing in Ethiopia
Clothing in Ethiopia: handwoven cotton traditional dress such as the habesha kemis, netela, shama, and gabi, regional ethnic styles, religious and festival dress, and the modern apparel industry.
Clothing in India
Clothing in India spans draped garments like the sari and dhoti, stitched salwar kameez, and regional dress such as the phiran and mekhala chador, rooted in a 6,000-year textile history and khadi nationalism.
Clothing in Sudan
Clothing in Sudan: the women's wrapped tob (tobe) and men's white jallabiyya as national dress, plus markoob shoes, tobe naming and trade, Meroitic textile heritage, and 20th-century fashion history.
Clothing in the ancient world
Clothing in the ancient world: dress in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, from Mesopotamian loincloths and Egyptian linen to Greek chitons, Roman-period Egyptian tunics, murex purple dye, and textile preservation conditions.
Clothing industry
The clothing industry produces, distributes, and sells garments and textile goods across a global value chain from fiber to retail. It employs over 90 million people, mostly women; Asia made 70.6% of world sector exports in 2022; global garment trade nears $550 billion; recycled fibres held only 7.6% market share in 2024.
Clothing laws by country
Clothing laws by country: national rules on dress, covering face-covering bans (France's 2010 law), mandatory attire (Iran, Afghanistan), decency and workplace dress codes, and human rights limits on regulating what people wear.
Clothing material
Clothing material (服装材料): the fabrics and auxiliary components of garments, from natural fibers like cotton, silk, and wool to chemical fibers like polyester, plus linings, threads, and fasteners, with measured comfort properties and sustainability data.
Clothing sizes
Clothing sizes are labels indicating the body measurements a ready-to-wear garment should fit. Key systems include ISO 8559, EN 13402, and ASTM tables; no binding worldwide standard exists, and vanity sizing has shifted label meanings over time.
Clotted cream
Clotted cream (Cornish: dehen molys), also called Devonshire cream, is a thick West Country cream of at least 55% butterfat made by scalding milk; Cornish clotted cream holds PDO status since 1998.
Clove
Clove (Syzygium aromaticum), the dried flower bud of a myrtle-family tree native to five Maluku islands, is a spice and eugenol source used in food, dentistry, and perfumery, once central to the spice trade.
Club Kids
Club Kids were a flamboyant late-1980s and early-1990s New York nightclub youth scene named by New York Magazine in 1988, led by promoter Michael Alig and James St. James at Peter Gatien's Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium, and Club USA, ending with Alig's 1997 manslaughter conviction for Angel Melendez's murder.
Club Med
Club Med (Club Méditerranée) is a French all-inclusive resort company founded in 1950 by Gérard Blitz on Majorca, now owned by China's Fosun, running 61 premium beach and ski resorts in 25 countries with over 1.4 million annual clients.