clad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæd/
rhymes: -æd
Etymology: From Middle English clad(d), cladde, clade, past tense and past participle forms of clathen, clothen (“to put clothing on, clothe, dress”), from *clāþian (“to clothe”) (past participle ġeclāded, ġeclaþed, ġeclaþod), from clāþ, clǣþ (“cloth; (plural) clothes”); see further at etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: [...] from his nook up leapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!
ref: 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Charmides”, in Poems:
text: Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her.
ref: 1912, James Stephens, chapter 10, in The Charwoman's Daughter; republished as Mary, Mary, New York: Boni & Liveright, (Please provide a date or year), page 66:
text: Everything was lost in a scene from a movie in which khaki-clad regiments marched fast, fast across the scene.
ref: 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, Part One, New York: The Modern Library, published 1932, page 35:
text: The radical conservatives of the Jain monks were called “Digambara—the sky-clad.” They went about completely naked, or in other words, “clothed in space.”
ref: 1964, Hajime Nakamura, “Alienation from the Objective Natural World”, in Philip P. Wiener, editor, Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India–China–Tibet–Japan, translator not credited, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 142:
text: There his chains would be removed and he would be ushered into the waiting-room for a five-minute chat with his wife surrounded on all sides by security men and civilian-clad prison warders.
ref: 1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, Section One, London: Heinemann, page 111:
text: Love brought between my sheets a laughing lad / One night. Eighteen years old, he was half-clad / Like a young boy: what a sweet dream!
ref: 2001, Daryl, transl. Hine, chapter CXXV, in Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology, Princeton University Press, page 59:
text: In the original photograph, the two leaders are followed by a single pair of uniform-clad men, but in Kafka's symmetrical arrangement, there are two pairs of attendants, each pair facing each other.
ref: 2007, Carolin Duttlinger, chapter 7, in Kafka and Photography, Oxford University Press, page 214:
synonyms: word: attired
word: beclad
word: raimented
word: aguised
word: beclad
word: clad
word: clothed
word: dressed
word: habilimented
word: nonnude
word: raimented
word: sarkit
word: togged
word: vested
word: yclothed
antonyms: word: unclad
word: clothed
word: decent
word: dressed
qualifier: preceded by a garment type
glosses: Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky foot-paths, practicable at best for donkeys, join it to the outer world of France; and the men and women drink and swear, in their green corner, or look up at the snow-clad peaks in winter from the threshold of their homes [...]
ref: 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, New York: Century, published 1907, page 25:
text: Into this book-clad room it followed the Bishop, with blue eyes and laughter on the red lips [...]
ref: 1887, Hall Caine, chapter XXVIII, in The Deemster, volume 2, London: Chatto & Windus, page 283:
text: The sun has gone down, and the water has gone down / From the weed-clad rock, but the distant cloud-wall rises.
ref: 1929, Robinson Jeffers, “Evening Ebb”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, published 1937, page 263:
text: [...] I can remember every volume among the three or four hundred books that made up the library of my father, the country doctor—three or four hundred besides those portentous leather-clad depositories of medical mystery filled with color plates depicting the awful intimacies of the innards;
ref: 1941, Sinclair Lewis, “A Note on Book Collecting”, in The Man from Main Street, New York: Pocket Books, published 1963, page 101:
text: Copper and copper-clad steel resist corrosion indefinitely in soil that is relatively free from ammonia.
ref: 1963, Harry L. Garver, “Lightning Protection for the Farm”, in Farmers' Bulletin, Issue 2136, U.S. Government, page 8:
text: The probe is constructed from plastic-clad silica fiber with an FPA Teflon jacket to prevent ambient light from being scattered into the system.
ref: 1987, Sol M. Michaelson, James C. Lin, chapter 3, in Biological Effects and Health Implications of Radiofrequency Radiation, New York and London: Plenum Press, page 84:
text: The second half of the century also saw the artistic peak of ceramic production at İzniq, with the finest products of the İzniq kilns made visible to the public in the tile-clad walls of the mosques of Rüstem Pasha (968/1561) and Șoqollu Meḥmed Pasha (979/1571) in Istanbul, both by Sinān.
ref: 2011, Colin Imber, “The Ottoman Empire (tenth/sixteenth century)”, in Maribel Fierro, editor, The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 2: The Western Islamic World: Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries, Cambridge University Press, page 353:
glosses: Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
raw_tags: of an object
glosses: Adorned, ornamented.
Derived terms: beclad
black-clad
demiclad
heathclad
ironclad
mailclad
moonclad
multiclad
overclad
pineclad
reclad
scantily clad
semiclad
skyclad
snowclad
thinclad
timber-clad
timberclad
tinclad
unclad
underclad