i Register
In some senses, clad is marked as figuratively, archaic, literary, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
[F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!
Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her.
Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky foot-paths, practicable at best for donkeys, join it to the outer world of France; and the men and women drink and swear, in their green corner, or look up at the snow-clad peaks in winter from the threshold of their homes [...]
Into this book-clad room it followed the Bishop, with blue eyes and laughter on the red lips [...]
Adorned, ornamented.
verb
To clothe, to dress.
At last faire Heſperus in higheſt ſkie / Had ſpent his lãpe [i.e., lampe] and brought forth dawning light, / Then vp he roſe, and clad him haſtily; / The dwarfe him brought his ſteed: ſo both away do fly.
Muſicke and Poetry is his delight, / Therefore ile haue Italian Maskes by night, / Sweete ſpeeches, Comedies, and pleaſing ſhowes, / And in the day when he ſhall walke abroad, / Like Siluian Nimphs my Pages ſhall be clad, […]
To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
[M]any bitter and extreme frosts at midsummer continually clothe and clad the discomfortable mountaines; […]
He ſcarce had ſaid, when the bare Earth, till then / Deſert and bare, unſightly, unadorn'd, / Brought forth the tender Graſs whoſe verdure clad / Her Univerſal Face with pleaſant green, […]
To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.
Moſt mercifull father, we beſeche thee ſo to ſende vpon theſe thy ſeruauntes thy heauenly bleſſyng, that they maye be cladde about with all iuſtice, & that thy worde ſpoken by theyr mouthes, may haue ſuch ſucceſſe, that it may neuer be ſpoken in vain.
O folly, thou hast power to make flesh glad, / When the rich soul in wretchedness is clad.