Literary notes about CLAD (AI summary)
The term "clad" is employed in literature as a versatile descriptor that conveys both physical attire and metaphorical states. Authors use it to depict characters’ appearances with precision—whether emphasizing the finery of knights in armor ([1], [2]), the stark simplicity of the impoverished ([3], [4]), or even the natural world, as when mountains are described as "snow-clad" ([5]) and towers as "clad in pure cold white" ([6]). It also serves to illustrate transformation or disguise, as seen in characters dressed in unusual or symbolic garb ([7], [8]). In this way, "clad" enhances imagery and deepens character portrayal by linking visual presentation to thematic connotations throughout literary texts ([9], [10]).
- Translate : What warriors are ye, clad in armor, who have thus come bringing the foaming vessel over the water way, hither over the seas?
— from Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem - " A dark cloud of grief fell upon Hector as he heard, and he made his way to the front clad in full armour.
— from The Iliad by Homer - They were all poorly clad, and from their downcast eyes and their humble looks I guessed them to be the victims of oppression.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month of February, and was singing at the top of his voice.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - He had walked to Staubbach—a little town that seems to flutter in the air like a silver veil—the glittering, snow-clad mountain Jungfrau.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. Andersen - The old church tower, clad in a ghostly garb of pure cold white, again rose up before them, and a few moments brought them close beside it.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens - Persons of superficial observation are apt to consider that a man clad in a different coat is quite a different person from what he used to be.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol - Clad in his nightshirt, his neck poked forward, his back rounded, he resembled some long white bird.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. by John Galsworthy - The other, who was a head taller than the Sheriff, was clad in a rich but simple garb, with a broad, heavy chain about his neck.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle - This scrutiny made, both faces withdrew, and there came out on to the entrance steps a lacquey clad in a grey jacket and a stiff blue collar.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
