clothing vs undress

clothing

noun
  • An act or instance of putting clothes on. 

  • A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. 

  • Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion. 

undress

noun
  • Informal clothing for men, as opposed to formal or ceremonial wear. 

  • Partial or informal dress for women, as worn in the home rather than in public. 

  • Now more specifically, a state of having few or no clothes on. 

verb
  • To remove the clothing of (someone). 

  • To remove one's clothing. 

  • To remove one’s clothing. 

  • To strip of something. 

  • To take the dressing, or covering, from. 

How often have the words clothing and undress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )