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Also Inflected form of clothe

clad

US/klæd/ uncommon archaic literary obsolete

adjective

1.

wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination

  • “clothed and in his right mind” Bible
  • “proud of her well-clothed family”
  • “nurses clad in white”
  • “white-clad nurses”
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2.

having an outer covering especially of thin metal

  • “steel-clad”
  • “armor-clad”
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Origin

From Middle English clad, cladde, cled(e), cledde, past tense and past participle forms of clethen (“(also figurative) to put clothing on, clothe, dress; to provide clothing to; to arm, equip; to cover, envelop; to conceal; to adorn”), from Old English clǣþan (past tense clǣþde, *clædde), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to adhere, cling, stick to”).

Phrases

  • scantily clad

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