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Give up returning fashionable decadent clothes (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cede

'give up' is the definition.
('cede' can be a synonym of 'give up')

'returning fashionable decadent clothes' is the wordplay.
'returning' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'clothes' indicates a hidden word (the letters clothe the hidden word).
'edec' can be found hidden inside 'fashionable decadent'.
'edec' reversed gives 'CEDE'.

(Other definitions for cede that I've seen before include "Deliver" , "Surrender or yield" , "Give up one's rights" , "Relinquish control of" , "Give up rights or possession" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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