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Here, we develop a plasmon-dressed, multipolar theory of PC-RET that explicitly incorporates both the local field and its gradients, as well as higher-order molecular multipolar transitions. Within this framework, the donor is treated as a field-driven multipolar emitter whose response is renormalized by the plasmonic near-field environment, giving rise to dipole\u2013dipole, dipole\u2013quadrupole, quadrupole\u2013dipole, and quadrupole\u2013quadrupole contributions. The donor-induced field and field gradient at the acceptor position are propagated to the acceptor via near-field interaction tensors, generating multiple energy-transfer channels that contribute both individually and through multipolar interference. Using a dipolar nanosphere model in which the radius controls the local field gradient, we show that plasmonic nanostructures can drive PC-RET far beyond the conventional dipole\u2013dipole picture. Notably, although the total transfer rate retains a Fo\u0308rster-like d\u20136 distance dependence, the underlying mechanism can be dominated by gradient-enhanced quadrupole\u2013quadrupole contributions within the dipole-allowed channel. Interference between multipolar pathways further modulates the dependence of the coupling on distance, direction, and molecular orientation. 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