clothed or clad
ˈklad 
; clothing
; clothing
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: to express or enhance by suitably significant language : couch
treaties clothed in stately phraseology
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: to endow especially with power or a quality
the nobility in which religion and history can clothe humanity—
D. R. Wallace
D. R. WallaceExamples of clothe in a Sentence
the cost of feeding and clothing your children
they liked to clothe the twins in identical outfits just to confuse people
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Martín Adames Alcántara, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Kid Rock in the Oval Office—executive order, clad in a loud red outfit and a cowboy hat with rhinestones, executive order.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
Mourners clad in black and white streamed into Santo Domingo’s National Theater, where the body of Rubby Pérez lay inside a closed coffin.
—Martín Adames Alcántara and Dánica Coto, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Now clad in a trench coat and fedora, Matt provides the classic private-eye voice-over via notes read into his phone.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Clothe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clothe. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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