clad
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /klæd/
clad (clads, present participle cladding; past and past participle clad)
- (past tense clad) To clothe.
- 1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, 101-104,
- A YEMAN hadde he and servantz namo / At that tyme, for hym liste ride soo; / And he was clad in cote and hood of grene.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto Two, stanza 6,
- At last faire Hesperus in highest skie / Had spent his lampe and brought forth dawning light, / Then up he rose, and clad him hastily; / The Dwarfe him brought his steed: so both away do fly.
- c. 1592, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Act I, Scene 1,
- Music and poetry is his delight; / Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night, / Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows; / And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, / Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad;
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 1,
- But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
- 1611, Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 11:29,
- And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field;
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part III, Chapter II,
- 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.
- 1798, William Wordsworth, "We Are Seven" in William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads,
- She had a rustic, woodland air, / And she was wildly clad; / Her eyes were fair, and very fair, / —He beauty made me glad.
- 1875, Patrick Smollett, Hansard, 7 April, 1875, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/]
- Those ladies came over to champion "Woman's rights," and proclaim the equality of the sexes; and to show they had a right to do so, they assumed, or rather usurped male attire—they clad themselves in breeches
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII,
- But what interested me most was the slender figure of a dainty girl, clad only in a thin bit of muslin which scarce covered her knees--a bit of muslin torn and ragged about the lower hem.
- 2009, Lester D. Langley, Simón Bolívar: Venezuelan Rebel, American Revolutionary, Rowman & Littlefield, Chapter 4, p. 75,
- His followers were neither ideologues nor philosophers nor clerics but shabbily clad fifteen-year-olds who looked twice their age […]
- 1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, 101-104,
- (past tense clad or cladded) To cover (with insulation or another material); to surround, envelop.
- 1596, Thomas Lodge, Dedication, A Margarite of America, in Clara Gebert (ed.), An Anthology of Elizabethan Dedications and Prefaces, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1933, p. 115,
- […] many bitter and extreme frosts at midsummer continually clothe and clad the discomfortable mountaines […]
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VII, 313-6, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_VII]
- He scarce had said, when the bare earth, till then / Desert and bare, unsightly, unadorned, / Brought forth the tender grass whose verdure clad / Her universal face with pleasant green,
- 1896, Fiona Macleod, The Washer of the Ford and Other Legendary Moralities, New York: Duffield & Co., 1910, p. 297, Chapter 6,
- Naked she was, though clad with soft white moonlight.
- 1972, B. W. Lifka and D. O. Sprowls, "Significance of Intergranular Corrosion in High-Strength Aluminum Alloy Products" in Localized Corrosion — Cause of Metal Failure, American Society for Testing and Materials, Special Technical Publication 516, p. 122,
- Subsequently E. H. Dix, Jr., at Alcoa Research Laboratories established methods to metallurgically clad commercial aluminum to both sides of a 2017-T4 (then known as 17S-T) sheet to obtain outstanding corrosion protection.
- 1596, Thomas Lodge, Dedication, A Margarite of America, in Clara Gebert (ed.), An Anthology of Elizabethan Dedications and Prefaces, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1933, p. 115,
- (figuratively) To imbue (with a specified quality)
- 1559, "The forme of Ordering of Priests" in The Book of Common Prayer,
- Most merciful Father, we beseech thee so to send upon these thy servantes thy heavenly blessing, that they may bee clad about with all justice […]
- 1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act V, Scene 2,
- O folly, thou hast power to make flesh glad, / When the rich soul in wretchedness is clad.
- 1943, Percy Harris, Hansard, 26 May, 1943, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/]
- The other day I was looking up some records of the Parliamentary Debates of the past, and I found my hon. Friend the Member for Dundee (Mr. Foot), who is now clad in all the majesty of a Minister and sits on the Treasury bench without regard to his murky past, moved a Motion on one of those pleasant Fridays […]
- 1976, Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back, New York: Viking, p. 37,
- He is one of those bulky men clad in sensitivity.
- 1559, "The forme of Ordering of Priests" in The Book of Common Prayer,
- (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of clothe
- French: vêtir, habiller
- German: kleiden
- Portuguese: cobrir
- Russian: одева́ть
- Spanish: cubrir, (precious metal) lavar, (precious metal) bañar
- French: couvrir
clad (not comparable)
- (in compounds) Wearing clothing of a specified type.
- (in compounds) Covered, enveloped in or surrounded by a specified material or substance.
- (wearing clothes) dressed, raimented; see also Thesaurus:clothed
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