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Clad   /klæd/   Listen
Clad

adjective
1.
Wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination.  Synonym: clothed.  "Proud of her well-clothed family" , "Nurses clad in white" , "White-clad nurses"
2.
Having an outer covering especially of thin metal.  "Armor-clad"


Clothe

verb
(past & past part. clothed or clad; pres. part. clothing)
1.
Provide with clothes or put clothes on.  Synonyms: apparel, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog.
2.
Furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors.  Synonyms: adorn, invest.
3.
Cover as if with clothing.  Synonyms: cloak, drape, robe.



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"Clad" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Nideck, whom I had thought a dying man, clad in a huge wolf-skin thrown with its upper jaw projecting grimly over his eyes like a visor, the formidable claws hanging over each shoulder, and the tail dragging ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
... yet, has been done by the immense Federal fleet of iron-clad gun-boats which were to devastate our coast this winter. But the winter is not over yet, and I apprehend something will be attempted. However, we shall make a heroic ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
... Bravely clad in the Peruvian uniform, and with a fine, mixed martial and naval step, a tall, striking figure of a long-bearded officer was descried, promenading the Quarter-deck of the stranger; and superintending the salutes, which ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... show merely the heads and the lower operating parts of the tools. Fig. 271 shows a metal-clad ball-bearing head, so called, as its under side is completely encased in metal securely screwed to the wood and revolving against ...
— Carpentry for Boys • J. S. Zerbe
... to cast off the boat, but Thompson remonstrated, and in the end that also was dragged to deck. Meanwhile the news had spread, and the awakened passengers of the Castle, clad in pyjamas, dressing-gowns, and even blankets, were crowding round the poor castaways or ...
— Benita, An African Romance • H. Rider Haggard


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