bediamonded

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ diamonded.

Adjective

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.