clad Definition

clad
adj

literary:
1. Clothed.
2. Covered. Also in compounds.

Example: velvet-clad
Example: stone-clad

verb

clad, cladding
1. To cover one material with another, eg brick or stonework with a different material, especially to form a protective layer.

Etymology: 14c: past tense and past participle of clothe.

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clothe
verb clothed (past tense, past participle), clad, clothing (present participle)

1. To cover or provide someone with clothes.

Thesaurus: dress, accoutre, garb, outfit, robe, deck, drape, swathe, don, adorn, endow; Antonym: take off, uncover.
2. To dress someone.
3. To cover, conceal or disguise someone or something. See also clad.

Example: hills clothed in mist

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon clathian.