archipelagoed

English

Etymology

From archipelago +‎ -ed.

Adjective

archipelagoed (not comparable)

1. (rare) Consisting of or arranged in the form of an archipelago.
   • 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XLIV, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 572:

     Imagine a poor exile contemplating that inert thing; and imagine an angel suddenly sweeping down out of a better land and setting before him a mighty porter-house steak van inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the gridddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most unimpeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; […]

   • 1954, Clemence Dane [pseudonym; Winifred Ashton], The Flower Girls, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company Inc, published 1955, page 538:

     A vast drugget had been laid down, a buffet ran right across the stage some six feet from the back wall, and tables and little golden chairs were archipelago'd in corners.

   • 2015, Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf, New York, N.Y., Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 215:

     The German boys whose names all sounded the same were archipelagoed around the edge of the room, being interviewed by the Reichssender or napping.

Verb

archipelagoed

1. simple past and past participle of archipelago

References

• “archipelagoed, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.