bedclothes

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The Poet then, having seized on the Idea and purged it of what is trivial or accidental, reclothes it in a concrete dress and so represents it to us.

From Poetry by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The sun is in the sign of Aries, "a better star," because the influence of this constellation was supposed to be benignant, and under it the earth reclothes itself.

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Paradise by Norton, Charles Eliot

Yes, while thou hopest, music fills the air, While thou rememberest, life reclothes the clod; While thou canst feel the electric chain of prayer, Breathe but a thought, and be a soul with God!

From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron