yclad
Americanverb
Etymology
Origin of yclad
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at y-, clad 1
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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
"Our blonket leveries been all too sad For thilk same season, when all is yclad With pleasance."
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
IN samite sark yclad was she; And that fair glimmerish band of gold Which crowned long, savage locks of hair In the moon brent cold.
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
Penthesilea nor all the cloven knights the poets treat of, yclad in mightiest petticoats, did her excel for gallant deeds, and with her honour still preserved her freedom.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
Ycladd, i, 1; yclad, i, 7, 29; ii, 2; ycled, iv, 38, clad.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
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