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reclothe, v.|riːˈkləʊð|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To clothe again; to provide again with clothing.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 467 They recloathing my..cold trembling body. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 364 Not sufficient to reclothe herself and her half-naked children. 1865Pall Mall G. 4 Aug. 10/1 The other tramps had carried off all their clothes, and the workhouse authorities had no choice but to reclothe them.
transf. and fig.1822Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Th. on Bks. & Reading, A tithe of that good leather would comfortably reclothe my shivering folios. 1842Tennyson Day-Dream, Sleeping Pal. i, The varying year with blade and sheaf Clothes and re-clothes the happy plains. 1872Whittier Brew. of Soma xii, Reclothe us in our rightful mind.
Hence reˈclothing vbl. n.
1846Trench Mirac. xxxi. (1862) 447 The image of the reclothing of the bare and withered fig-tree with leaf and bud. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 242 Judicious re-clothing with vegetation. |