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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of re-cover.

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Examples

  • But after a month, she sent them away to be re-covered in yellow cashmere.

    Going Modern in Old New York Candace Jackson 2011

  • Ivor sofa, 84 x 44 x 36 inches, howardchairs.com It's worth considering these options as there is nothing more comfortable than an old-fashioned sofa, and you can always have a poorly dressed one re-covered.

    The Best in Squooshy Sofas Rita Konig 2012

  • First, it was covered in pink paper, but I didn't care for it so I re-covered it in the white, as you see, above.

    Handkerchief Box 2009

  • But after a month, she sent them away to be re-covered in yellow cashmere.

    A Modern Look in New York's Apthorp 2011

  • This re-covered iPod is almost like hugging a tree, except it fits in the palm of your hand.

    Wood iPod Puts Nature In the Palm Of Your Hand | Inhabitat 2009

  • First, it was covered in pink paper, but I didn't care for it so I re-covered it in the white, as you see, above.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • The e-mails state that McMahon ordered that the seats be re-covered, and one e-mail complains that the contractor "would not swap out the brown seat belts for replacement blue seat belts."

    Boing Boing 2008

  • I focus on my desk chair—an old spindly thing I found at a tag sale and re-covered with fish-pattern fabric.

    Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010

  • As one educator has noted: “Except for mathematics, the child who mastered old Dilworth, dog-eared, worn, and re-covered with oilcloth or gingham though it might be, learned more of writing and speaking than is often taught in the first ten years of public education today.”

    Inside Abe Lincoln's Log School Linda 2008

  • His efforts revealed raw earth, which was never re-covered, and Ms. Judd said memories of her life in that space are inextricably linked to the organic odor of dirt.

    Artist Judd's Home Gets Redo 2010

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