reclothev.
/riːˈkləʊð/, U.S. /riˈkloʊð/ transitive. To clothe again (literal and figurative); to provide again with clothing.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > again
reclothea1513
new-dressa1586
re-array1600
revest1605
reinvest1611
resuit1614
re-dress1739
redeck1771
regarment1814
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Radegunde (c1525) sig. biv She was reclothed with religious vesture.
1596 R. Linche Certaine Sonnets in Diella xxv. sig. C5v The naked winter is recloth'd by spring.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 467 They recloathing my broken, bloody, and cold trembling body.., I fell twice in a founding trance.
1655 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer 69 Laying off their penitential weeds, they reclothe themselves in handsome apparel.
1755 Fanny II. 120 Reclothing ourselves properly, we entered Malaga on foot.
1782 J. Scott Poet. Wks. 64 Plenty's hand Recloth'd the desart fields, and Peace and Love Sat smiling by.
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. July 33/2 A tythe of that good leather would comfortably re-clothe my shivering folios.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 10/1 The other tramps had carried off all their clothes, and the workhouse authorities had no choice but to reclothe them.
1872 J. G. Whittier Brewing of Soma xii Reclothe us in our rightful mind.
1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty iii. 84 All his Knights cleansed and respirited, reclothed as might be.
1958 Philos. & Phenomenological Res. 19 121 There is no attempt made by the author to reclothe old questions in modern garb.
1993 R. Castleden Minoans (BNC) 94 The image of Athena Polis was..ceremonially reclothed in a new robe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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