clothe
verb (used with object)
to dress; attire.
had clad
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past perfectof clothe.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Ere this happed the fair had clad her passing well.
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
Now when they had clad them in shining mail, they opened the gates and went forth and Odysseus led them.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
Now she had clad them in the costliest of clothes and adorned them with trinkets and ornaments and moulded work of gold and silver and collars of gold, wrought with pearls and gems.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Her words seemed to pierce through a weak place in the iron armour in which he had clad himself.
From Rosa Mundi and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Whether he had carried with him any of Evelina's illusions, Ann Eliza had never discovered; but his attentions had clad her sister in a halo of exquisite possibilities.
From Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
