Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of black-clad.
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.
2010, Jason Murk, Mexican Song of Sunshine2 more examples
'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, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 584River 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.
2011, Mick Herron, Slow Horses
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