swathe, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

swathe (swathes plural & 3rd person present) (swathing present participle) (swathed past tense & past participle )
The noun is also spelled swath.

1 n-count A swathe of land is a long strip of land.
usu N of n
Year by year great swathes of this small nation's countryside disappear.

2 n-count A swathe of cloth is a long strip of cloth, especially one that is wrapped around someone or something.
usu N of n
...swathes of white silk.

3  verb To swathe someone or something in cloth means to wrap them in it completely.
She swathed her enormous body in thin black fabrics...  V n in n
His head was swathed in bandages made from a torn sheet.  V-ed