ppl. a. [see CLOTHE v.] Covered with, or as with, clothes, clad. As adj. chiefly with well-, ill-, or the like.
c. 1220. Bestiary, 150. If he cloðed man se.
1647. Crashaw, Poems, 118. A well-clothed soul.
a. 1729. Dampier’s Voy., III. I. 297. And those Hills too, so cloath’d with tall Woods.
1748. De Foe’s Tour Gt. Brit., II. 245 (D.). A cloathed Resurrection-piece, painted by Sir James Thornhill.
1839. W. Chambers, Tour Holland, 23/1. Avenues of richly clothed trees.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., 193. A mast is said to be clothed when the sail is so long as to reach the deck-gratings.
