Molly swathed her children in sheets to turn them into ghosts on Halloween.
•She swathed the statue in black velvet for the unveiling ceremony.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
swathe — [[t]swe͟ɪð, AM swɑ͟ːð[/t]] swathes, swathing, swathed (The noun is also spelled swath.) 1) N COUNT: usu N of n A swathe of land is a long strip of land. On May 1st the army took over another swathe of territory... Year by year great swathes of… … English dictionary
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