clad

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  1. transitive verb To sheathe or cover (a metal) with a metal.
  2. transitive verb To cover with a protective or insulating layer of other material.
  3. verb A past tense and a past participle of clothe.

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  • See! Though all is now snow-clad, our path, as we came up, turned about that shoulder of rock down yonder. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • So thoroughly snow-clad was the ice that it looked like a particularly flat extension of the land. —  FSF, August 2006
  • One iron-clad, absolute rule of wiki editing is that you must not edit sentences in a way that makes nonsense of the point they were trying to make. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • The current rally outside Abhisit's office has echoes of the demonstrations by a yellow-clad, anti-Thaksin movement that rocked Thailand throughout 2008. —  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
  • I ring the doorbell and find myself in the company of scantily-clad, arse-faced Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. —  Scaryduck: Not Scary. Not a Duck.
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clad:   clothing ·  clothes ·  clothe ·  clothed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Back-formation from cladding.

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  1. from Middle English clad, cled, cladd, contr. from clathed, earlier form of clothed: see clothe.
  2. Var. of clothe, clathe, after clad, preterit and past participle
 

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