Definition of clothe
b
: to provide with clothes
the cost of feeding and clothing a family
2
: to express or enhance by suitably significant language : couch
treaties clothed in stately phraseology
3
: to endow especially with power or a quality
the nobility in which religion and history can clothe humanity— D. R. Wallace
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The first known use of clothe was before the 12th century
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