cladding

Clothing; clothes.

Noun

  1. Clothing; clothes.
  2. Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fibre.
  3. A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building.

    Synonyms: siding

Origin

From clad + -ing. Compare clothing, ultimately from the same source.

Forms

claddings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of clad