blackclad

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English

Adjective

blackclad (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of black-clad
    • 2010, Jason Murk, Mexican Song of Sunshine:
      People tear down trees to build their houses, and the melting snow water sluices down the mountainside, carrying occasional houses and blackclad robeclad Zen masters too.
    • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 584:
      'Hardly a day would go by,' recalled Sari Nusseibeh, 'when I didn't spy into the streets beyond No-Man's-Land' and there in Mea Shearim, 'I saw blackclad men. Sometimes the bearded creatures looked back at me.'
    • 2011, Mick Herron, Slow Horses:
      River hadn't laid eyes on Hobden before, but this had to be him: average height, thinning brownish hair, look of terror as he turned to face this new intrusion even while crushed in an arm-lock by the previous invader, the achiever—except this wasn't an achiever: he was blackclad, wore a balaclava, had a utility belt round his waist, but the ensemble lacked the hi-tech tailoring of the genuine article.