be clothed in something• We were servedswordfish clothed in a pale, creamysauce.• I was clothed in black from head to toe six weeks after my eighteenth birthday.• The mutantis clothed inmoistsacking only, and his skin is covered in most places with thickgreenscales.• A little farther on, the walls are clothed in pyracantha and Clematis orientalis.• The shift was an unbroken sixteen hours and the children were clothed inrags.• All the old rottenstumps and decaying fallen treesare clothed in their green.• And all the garments he was clothed in were not only untainted but still shone with their first newness and original brightness.• In spring its fleshwas clothed in white flowers.• I didn't say so, because the idea was too unpleasant to be clothed in words and made visible.