clad
Clad means "dressed or covered." Most kids go to school clad in jeans and t-shirts, but students in the Shakespeare club might show up clad in velvet gowns or leather breeches.
As a verb, clad is the past tense and past particle of “clothe,” as in “the leprechaun clad himself in green.” It’s also an adjective that describes being covered or clothed, so a building can be clad in brick, while a person can be clad in head-to-toe sequins. It’s an old-fashioned word, kind of like “shod,” which means “wearing footwear.”
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having an outer covering especially of thin metal“steel-clad”“armor-clad”synonyms:sheathedenclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination
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wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination“nurses clad in white”“white-clad nurses”synonyms: clothedappareled, attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robeddressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combinationbundled-updressed warmlycaparisonedclothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings)cassockeddressed in a cassockcoatedhaving or dressed in a coatcostumeddressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or classcowledhaving the head enclosed in a cowl or hooddighteddressed or adorned (as for battle)dolled up, dressed, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed-up, spiffed up, spruced up, togged updressed in fancy or formal clothinggownedwearing a gownhabiteddressed in a habitheavy-coatedwearing a heavy coatoverdresseddressed too elaboratelypetticoatedwearing or furnished with a petticoatlobster-backed, red-coatedused of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coatssuitedoutfitted or supplied with clothingsurplicedwearing a surplicetoggeddressed especially in smart clothesturned outdressed well or smartlytuxedoeddressed in a tuxedounderdressedinadequately or too informally clotheduniformeddressed in a uniformvestmenteddressed in ceremonial garments especially clerical vestment
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