Clad
[klæd]
Definition
(adj.) having an outer covering especially of thin metal; 'steel-clad'; 'armor-clad' .
Editor: Nell--From WordNet
Definition
(v.t) To clothe.
(-) imp. & p. p. of Clothe.
(-) of Clothe
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Definition
pa.t. and pa.p. of Clothe.
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Examples
- Holmes was seated at his side-table clad in his dressing-gown, and working hard over a chemical investigation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- One day Emmy, with George in her hand and clad in deep sables, went to visit the deserted mansion which she had not entered since she was a girl. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We can not see the long array of chariots and mail-clad men laden with the spoils of conquest, but we can imagine the pageant, after a fashion. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- All Barsoomians speak the same tongue from the ice-clad south to the ice-clad north, though their written languages differ. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- She was clad in her dress--he in his dressing-gown, over his night-clothes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She had an interview with Octavian, in which she presented herself as beauty in distress and very lightly clad. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I lowered my lamp, and saw a negro half clad, writhing under the agony of disease, while he held me with a convulsive grasp. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I walked to the city without any concern, being clad like one of the natives, and sufficiently instructed to converse with them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In the road stood our horse and trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I felt ashamed to appear before my benefactors so clad. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At the same time a large naval fleet will be assembled there, and the iron-clads will run the batteries as they did at Mobile. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Two or more iron-clads will be ordered to report to Admiral Farragut. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Only iron-clads fired at first; the object being to draw the fire of the enemy's guns so as to ascertain their positions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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