moonclad

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

moonclad (comparative more moonclad, superlative most moonclad)

  1. (poetic) Illuminated by moonlight.
    • 1967, The Dublin Magazine:
      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. (chiefly paganism) Nude, particularly outdoors at night.
    • 1997, Ivan Argüelles, Jake Berry, Purisima Sex Addict II:
      moonclad in her thin blue underthing
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