swathed

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One features sunrise-pastel walls and an angelic ceiling mural, and another is swathed in bluish gray and gold marble print paper on the walls and ceiling.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 15, 2025

A priest took the documents and lightly tapped them against the statue, which was swathed in flowers and tucked behind three doorways framed in gold leaf carvings of Hindu gods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 15, 2025

At one table in front of him sat former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, swathed in a madder-red three-quarter-length coat and sandwiched between her counsel.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2025

Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

Still far away, forty miles at least, they saw Mount Doom, its feet founded in ashen ruin, its huge cone rising to a great height, where its reeking head was swathed in cloud.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien