bediamonded

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English

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Etymology

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From be- +‎ diamonded.

Adjective

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bediamonded (not comparable)

  1. Featuring or wearing a diamond or diamonds.
    • 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In Quest of a Solution”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett [], →OCLC, page 41:
      In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.
    • 1917, O. Henry, “The Snow Man”, in Waifs and Strays[1], Doubleday, pages 120–121:
      "My fren'," said Etienne, exhaling a large cloud from his cigarette and patting Ross lightly on the shoulder with a bediamonded hand which hung limp from a yard or more of bony arm, []
    • 1989, Sarah Shankman, Then Hang All The Liars[2], Pocket Books, →ISBN:
      She crossed her bediamonded wrists across her breast so that her fingertips touched both sides of her throat.