Meaning

verb provide with clothes or put clothes on

verb furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

verb cover as if with clothing

originFrom Middle English clothen, from Old English *clāþian (“to clothe”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþōną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to adhere to, stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleden, German kleiden, Swedish kläda, after apocope klä. See also cloth, clad.

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