bodkined
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bodkined (not comparable)
- Fastened with a bodkin.
- 1853, Chambers' Home Book, Or Pocket Miscellany:
- These maidens, with their golden-bodkined hair, were enchanted when they found that I had come from England; for at first they had taken me for a Frenchwoman.
- 1875, Woman's Work for Woman: A Union Magazine, volume 5, page 147:
- Dressed in their best quilted tunics and cloth pantaloons, with hair oiled, mounted and bodkined precisely as worn by their ancestors two thousand years ago, toes thrust in paper-soled blue slippers […]