clad

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  clad    clothe  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
clad1 archaic or literary past participle of clothe

▶adjective

• 1 clothed.

• 2 provided with cladding.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
clad2

▶verb (clads, cladding; past and past part. cladded or clad) cover with cladding.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘clothe’): appar. from clad1.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
clothe/kləʊð/

▶verb (past and past part. clothed or archaic or literary clad) (often be clothed in) put clothes on; dress.

■ provide with clothes.

– origin OE (only recorded in the past part. geclāded), from clāth (see cloth).