belted
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]belted
- simple past and past participle of belt
Adjective
[edit]belted (not comparable)
- (of a garment) Fitted with a belt.
- 1952 April 7, “The Way Things Are”, in Time:
- Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: “A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back...”
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- She was a doctor's receptionist, and wore a blouse and skirt under her belted mac.
- Wearing a belt.
- 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry)[1]:
- How the bayonets gleamed and glistened, as we looked far down, and listened
To the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers!
- (of animals etc.) Characterized by a white band around the body.
- Belted Dutch cattle
- Belted Galloway
- the belted kingfisher