Moonclad

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Illuminated by moonlight. poetic

    "I had never been that way, and I looked on that massive pile of silence almost with expectation, as though a door might open and something emerge, or a voice roar rustily at us from the moonclad top."

  2. 2
    Nude, particularly outdoors at night.

    "moonclad in her thin blue underthing"

Example

More examples

"I had never been that way, and I looked on that massive pile of silence almost with expectation, as though a door might open and something emerge, or a voice roar rustily at us from the moonclad top."

Etymology

From moon + clad, the "nude" sense by analogy with skyclad.

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