yclad
Americanverb
Etymology
Origin of yclad
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at y-, clad 1
Example Sentences
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But let’s be real: Next time you play Scrabble, you’re definitely going to use yclad, so you might as well play it here.
From Slate • Feb. 5, 2022
Where is every piping lad That the fields are not yclad With their milk-white sheep?
From Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) by Tutin, J. R.
Old Whiter sad, in snow yclad, Is making a doleful din; But let him howl till he crack his jowl, We will not let him in.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Ycladd, i, 1; yclad, i, 7, 29; ii, 2; ycled, iv, 38, clad.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund
Mecaenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in leade, That matter made for Poets on to play.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
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