pa. pple. arch. (since 16th c.). Also 4–5 ycladde, ycledde, (also 7) iclad, 6 ycladd. [See Y- 4 and CLAD.] Clothed (lit. and fig.).
c. 1320. Sir Tristr., 2843. Mark y clad in palle.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 472. Al to selde … Is ony pouere man wel redde Or wel araied or [y]cledde. Ibid. (c. 1386), Miller’s T., 134. Yclad [v.rr. iclad, y-cladde] he was … Al in a kirtel of a lyght waget.
1460. Capgrave, Chron. (Rolls), 363. Iff a man se an other naked he shalle have mo sekernes of hym thanne iff he se hym yclad.
c. 1474. Caxton, Recuyell (1894), 615. A place voyde, where the maysters … putte the body of hector … y cladde in his beste garementes and robes.
1568. T. Howell, Arb. Amitie (1879), 97. My carefull corps yclad with heauinesse.
1583. Melbancke, Philotimus, Ff ij. All yclad in grene … he paced forward to the parke.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 29. An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., I. i. 33. Her words yclad with wisedomes Maiesty.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 30. In pure white clothes iclad.
1616. R. C., Times’ Whistle, ii. (1871), 30. Ignorance in his scarlet robe yclad.
1676. Hobbes, Iliad, XIX. 371. Yclad in Armour shining like the Sun.
1748. Thomson, Cast. Indol., II. x. Yclad in steel, and bright with burnish’d mail.
1751. R. Lloyd, Progr. Envy, xv. In flowing sable stole she was yclad.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., II. liv. Spring yclad in grassy dye.
