If you are clad in particular clothes, you are wearing them.
[literary]
...the figure of a woman, clad in black. [+ in]
Johnson was clad casually in slacks and a light blue golf shirt.
...posters of scantily-clad women.
Synonyms: dressed, clothed, invested, arrayed More Synonyms of clad
Clad is also a combining form.
...the leather-clad biker.
2. adjective
A building, part of a building, or mountain that is cladwith something is covered by that thing.
[literary]
The walls and floors are clad with ceramic tiles. [+ in/with]
Clad is also a combining form.
...the distant shapes of snow-clad mountains.
...the ivy-clad house.
clad in British English1
(klæd)
verb
a past participle of clothe
Word origin
Old English clāthode clothed, from clāthian to clothe
clad in British English2
(klæd)
verbWord forms: clads, cladding or clad
(transitive)
to bond a metal to (another metal), esp to form a protective coating
Word origin
C14 (in the obsolete sense: to clothe): special use of clad1
clad in American English
(klæd)
verb transitiveWord forms: clad or ˈcladding
1. alt. pt. & pp. of
clothe
2.
to face the surface of
to clad a tower in marble
3.
to bond a layer of another metal to
adjective
4.
clothed; dressed
5.
having a layer of some other metal or of an alloy bonded to it
clad steel, clad coins
Examples of 'clad' in a sentence
clad
It shows a scantily clad woman talking on the phone.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But the buildings were still clad in stone and justifying themselves with historical references.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They sat beside students clad in skinny jeans and T-shirts who filmed the concert on their phones.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
His whole house was clad in Portland stone.
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The building is clad in red cedar and the track is made of strips of Siberian pine.
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The building is clad in panels of opaque glass much thicker than usual, for this reason.
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As well as providing beautiful patterns and textures, cladding a building with plants is an ecofriendly option.
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The building will be clad in tinted mirrored glass, so the exterior will reflect the landscape around it.
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We will have fixed 14m houses that needed cladding on the outside and replaced all the heating with heat pumps.
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Can a 1960s house clad in rusty steel be worth 3m?
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The dancing, by a cast mainly clad in white shirts and trousers, is wholly admirable.
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Uses: Outdoor uses such as timber cladding of external buildings.
Chapman, C. & Horsley, M. & Small, E. Technology Basic Facts (1990)
Workers clad in protective yellow suits tend the patients in what is known as the'red zone '.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I live in a timber-framed house, the top half of which is covered in metal cladding that has a white treatment.
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In other languages
clad
British English: clad ADJECTIVE
If you are clad in particular clothes, you are wearing them.
...the figure of a woman, clad in black.
American English: clad
Brazilian Portuguese: vestido
Chinese: 身着…服装的
European Spanish: vestido
French: vêtu
German: gekleidet
Italian: vestito
Japanese: 着て
Korean: ~을 입고 있는
European Portuguese: vestido
Latin American Spanish: vestido
All related terms of 'clad'
clothe
To clothe someone means to provide them with clothes to wear.
half-clad
partially dressed
snow-clad
covered or topped with fallen snow
armor-clad
covered with armor
armour-clad
wearing armour
steel-clad
covered with steel ; steel-panelled
ironclad
If you describe a guarantee or plan as ironclad , you are emphasizing that it has been carefully put together, and that you think it is absolutely certain to work or be successful .
(adjective)
He was clad casually in slacks and a light blue golf shirt.
Synonyms
dressed
clothed
invested
arrayed
draped
fitted out
decked out
attired
He was faultlessly attired in black coat and striped trousers.
rigged out (informal)
apparelled
accoutred
covered
Additional synonyms
in the sense of attired
Definition
dressed in a specified way
He was faultlessly attired in black coat and striped trousers.