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clad1 /klad /verb archaic or literary past participle of clothe. adjective1Clothed: they were clad in T-shirts and shorts [in combination]: leather-clad boys...- We now meet the three painters, Micko, Anto and Deco, all of them clad in dirty white overalls.
- It was a family occasion, with everyone clad in red and white striped tops.
- Clad in a casual suit, he was visibly embarrassed by the other boy's looks and hid his face behind a book.
Synonyms dressed, clothed, attired, got up, garbed, rigged out, costumed; wearing, sporting informal dolled up literary caparisoned, accoutred archaic apparelled 2Covered with cladding: [in combination]: copper-clad boards...- These are also the people who gave us stone cladding - it's almost impossible to shift a clad house without a huge spend to remove it and repair the frontage.
- Classrooms were in a building with stone steps up to the front door, and in later years there was a pine-clad hut across the yard that was also a classroom.
- Natural and artificial light is reflected from the polished and honed surfaces of the stone-clad interior.
Rhymes ad, add, Allahabad, bad, Baghdad, bedad, begad, cad, Chad, dad, egad, fad, forbade, gad, glad, grad, had, lad, mad, pad, plaid, rad, Riyadh, sad, scad, shad, Strad, tad, trad clad2 /klad /verb (clads, cladding; past and past participle cladded or clad) [with object]Encase (a structure) with a covering or coating: he cladded the concrete-frame structure in stainless steel...- Local Dalmatian sandy limestone clads the in-situ structure, the stone cut smooth in contrast to the rough city wall across the new alley.
- The thick stone that clads the facades was chosen to last; the facades look much as they did when new.
- Fiber-cement siding clads the Greenpeace home's exterior, and low-VOC paints cover interior walls.
Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'clothe'): apparently from clad1. |