Careful Words

clad (n.)

clad (adj.)

The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold.

John Ferriar (1764-1815): Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. Line 6.

'T is chastity, my brother, chastity:

She that has that is clad in complete steel.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 420.

So have I heard, and do in part believe it.

But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,

Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.