Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Clothed in armor of steel.
 
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When I got back the steel-clad exterior doors were in, very handsome and giving the house a feeling of solid strength that went well with its massive, sculptural personality.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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When I got back the steel-clad exterior doors were in, very handsome and giving the house a feeling of solid strength that went well with its massive, sculptural personality.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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When I got back the steel-clad exterior doors were in, very handsome and giving the house a feeling of solid strength that went well with its massive, sculptural personality.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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When I got back the steel-clad exterior doors were in, very handsome and giving the house a feeling of solid strength that went well with its massive, sculptural personality.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Later on Sunday Bin Hammam and Warner – at a press conference at Fifa's $100m headquarters, on a hill above Zurich, an echoing, steel-clad office block, set in rolling rose gardens, ringed by football pitches – were suspended by Fifa's ethics committee.
Blind eyes and closed ranks at the crazy court of Fifa's Sepp Blatter | David Conn 2011
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She minimized paint using plaster walls inside, stone outside and steel-clad windows so as to avoid retouching work.
In Napa, Blending a House and Winery Nancy Keates 2011
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From The Slavers of Thok (our hero is on a steel-clad steamship in the middle of a sea battle):
Juvenalia II: Action! ewillett 2008
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Bead board clads the wall, with fir on the ceilings, lending warmth to the sitting area while contrasting with the steel-clad fireplace.
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Of course the film also includes Moore's trademark attempts to bust through security at steel-clad corporations so he can have a productive tete a tete with the CEO.
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The Grecian sailors, too, when they observed the vessels approach so near, filled with the steel-clad Latins, began to shrink from a contest to be maintained hand to hand with so terrible an enemy.
 
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