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clad

[klad]

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verb

a simple past tense and past participle of clothe.

adjective (usually used in combination)

dressed: ill-clad vagrants.

covered: vine-clad cottages.

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Origin:
before 950; Middle English cladd(e), Old English clāthod(e) clothed. See clothe, -ed²

Example Sentences

The building, which takes its aesthetic cues from notable local structures, is clad in red brick and sits on.

The first was against the mixing of lightly clad men and women, which could encourage lewdness and promiscuity.

Every few blocks a coffeehouse, the interior usually clad in warm wood, seems to pop up.

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The building, which takes its aesthetic cues from notable local structures, is clad in red brick and sits on.

The first was against the mixing of lightly clad men and women, which could encourage lewdness and promiscuity.

Every few blocks a coffeehouse, the interior usually clad in warm wood, seems to pop up.

We've all heard scantily clad spokespeople make bogus claims about instant weight-loss supplements on late-night television.

The new monarch, clad in golden robes, was carried off in a gilded palanquin.

The log that creates the waterfall is clad in thin copper sheeting, pressed and glued to highlight underlying bark patterns.

Promote your video games as best you can, but don't use scantily clad women as a hook.

Clad in grimy shorts and scuffed wing tips-nothing else-he was hawking boiled eggs from a roadside stall.

And nobody would be surprised to see your head clad in a big piece of dark plastic, either.

Onlookers admire a shoulder-mounted flame instrument and its scantily clad fire player.

Scantily clad women roamed the hallways: another public relations gimmick to rise about the din.

There came a lady clad in grey in the twilight shining: one moment she would stand and stay, her hair with flowers en-twining.

One by one, the neon signs displaying scantily clad women went dark.

And somewhat immodestly clad in a dissolving paper bikini.

There's an old circus trick in which a skimpily clad young woman is strapped to a bed.

The stars were there, and scantily clad dancers celebrated boundaries and wickets.

Many accounts attest to a somnambulist leaving their house clad only in underpants, or rising to cook a meal and returning to.

He is clad in khaki shorts and trekking boots, and his unflinching gaze and rock-hard jaw give him the look of a drill sergeant.

Inflated, balloonlike buds are carried on slender stalks at the ends of upright stems clad in.

But by evening he may well be clad in a robe and yarmulke, chanting ancient prayers in a darkened synagogue.

Females aren't as scantily clad as they used to be, but males still get the better t-shirts.

Also, if you're a fan of scantily clad people of both genders, this is the book for you.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), clad, clad·ding.

to bond a metal to (another metal), especially to provide with a protective coat.

Origin:
1935–40; special use of clad¹

variant of clado- before a vowel.

verb (used with object), clothed or clad, cloth·ing.

to dress; attire.

to provide with clothing.

to cover with or as with clothing.

Origin:
before 950; Middle English clothen, Old English clāthian, derivative of clāth cloth

Related forms

half-clothed, adjective

pre·clothe, verb (used with object), -clothed, -cloth·ing.

re·clothe, verb (used with object), -clothed or -clad, -cloth·ing.

un·der·clothed, adjective

well-clothed, adjective

Can be confused: close, cloth, clothe, clothes, cloze (see synonym note at close).

Synonyms
1. robe, garb, array, accouter, bedeck.

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World English Dictionary

clad¹ (klæd)

—vb
	a past participle of clothe

[Old English clāthode clothed, from clāthian to clothe]

clad² (klæd)

—vb , clads, cladding, clad
	(tr) to bond a metal to (another metal), esp to form a protective coating

[C14 (in the obsolete sense: to clothe): special use of clad¹]

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Word Origin & History

clad

1300, alternative pt. and pp. of clothe, from O.E. geclæþd, pp. of clæþan "to clothe," from clað "cloth."

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clothe

O.E. claþian (see cloth).

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