What does clad mean?
Clad means to wrap something with clothes or to put garments on. Example, ‘the doll was clad in a lovely pink dress of silk.’ It could also mean to be dressed in a particular way. Common synonymous words for clad could be dresses or clothed. The word clad can also be used as a suffix in adjectives. For example, ‘the snow-clad mountains literally blinded him’. Another example, ‘we saw an armour-clad ship sailing in the ocean’. Clad has an archaic use and in literary sense it is used as a past participle of clothe. Clad can be used as a noun but the form differs. It is used as cladding. The word cladding also means a covering or clothing for a structure or material like a building or a vehicle. Figuratively, it means to invest in something, or cover with something.
