clothe

(klōth)

tr.v. clothed or clad (klăd), cloth·ing, clothes

1. To put clothes on; dress: The children were clothed in warm fleece.

2. To provide clothes for.

3. To cover as if with clothing: "People clothe the act of vengeance in all sorts of justifications" (James Carroll).

4. To endow with a trait or attribute.

[Middle English clothen, from Old English clāthian, from clāth, cloth.]

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clothed

(kləʊðd)

adj

1. (Clothing & Fashion) dressed

2. literary covered as if with clothing

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	clothed - wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses" clad adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction unclothed - not wearing clothing
	2.	clothed - covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks" draped, mantled, wrapped, cloaked covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"

Translations

clothed

[kləʊðd] ADJ → vestido

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

clothed

[ˈkləʊðd] adj

(= dressed) → habillé(e)
clothed in sth (= dressed) → vêtu(e) de qch

(literary) (= covered) clothed in sth → (re)couvert(e) de qch
clothed in green → (re)couvert de verdure

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References in classic literature

Dorothy wondered why the animals living in Foxville did not wear just their own hairy skins as wild foxes do; when she mentioned it to King Dox he said they clothed themselves because they were civilized.

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Happily for me, my acquaintance among the Rosalinds of the bicycle, at this period of my life, was but slight, and thus no familiarity with the tweed knickerbocker feminine took off the edge of my delight on first beholding Nicolete clothed in like manhood with ourselves, and yet, delicious paradox!

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If he is young, has very short hair, seems very guarded in his speech and has a cohort willing to (ad)dress him as "Ya Bey" (sir or officer), he can wear informal western dress and pass as a plain clothed policeman or state security, a tactic guaranteed to discourage cheating cab drivers and shopkeepers.

Political science without clothes: the politics of dress or contesting the spatiality of the state in Egypt