[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That clothes, investing, enveloping.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 67. Clethynge, vestiens, amicens.

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1668.  Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., III. Introd. 127/1. The parts which constitute the Calva, are some of them external and cloathing, others internal and contained.

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