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CLAD
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Irregular inflected form: cladding
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination
Example:
white-clad nurses
Synonyms:
clad; clothed
Classified under:
Similar:
uniformed (dressed in a uniform)
underdressed (inadequately or too informally clothed)
tuxedoed (dressed in a tuxedo)
turned out (dressed well or smartly)
togged (dressed especially in smart clothes)
surpliced (wearing a surplice)
suited (outfitted or supplied with clothing)
lobster-backed; red-coated (used of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coats)
petticoated (wearing or furnished with a petticoat)
overdressed (dressed too elaborately)
heavy-coated (wearing a heavy coat)
habited (dressed in a habit)
gowned (wearing a gown)
dolled up; dressed; dressed-up; dressed to kill; dressed to the nines; spiffed up; spruced up; togged up (dressed in fancy or formal clothing)
dighted (dressed or adorned (as for battle))
cowled (having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood)
costumed (dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class)
coated (having or dressed in a coat)
cassocked (dressed in a cassock)
caparisoned (clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings))
bundled-up (dressed warmly)
breeched; pantalooned; trousered (dressed in trousers)
arrayed; panoplied (in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia)
appareled; attired; dressed; garbed; garmented; habilimented; robed (dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination)
vestmented (dressed in ceremonial garments especially clerical vestment)
Also:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having an outer covering especially of thin metal
Example:
armor-clad
Classified under:
Similar:
sheathed (enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb clad
Context examples:
He was clad in rags, was very emaciated, and bore every trace of prolonged hardship.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was clad in a blue uniform, and I remember noting how trim and quiet he was.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Above twenty of those clad in this costume were full-grown girls, or rather young women; it suited them ill, and gave an air of oddity even to the prettiest.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Behind him rode six others, two and two, clad in sober brown jerkins, with the long yellow staves of their bows thrusting out from behind their right shoulders.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Those to whom the king had entrusted me, observing how ill I was clad, ordered a tailor to come next morning, and take measure for a suit of clothes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The younger had left us, but he suddenly returned through another door, leading with him a gentleman clad in some sort of loose dressing-gown who moved slowly towards us.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The road from Crawley curves gently upwards to the upland heather-clad plateau which extends for many miles in every direction.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was clad in a dark suit, and I saw that he had a black beard.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of refinement and delicacy in his bearing.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
