diamonded
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]diamonded
- simple past and past participle of diamond
Adjective
[edit]diamonded (comparative more diamonded, superlative most diamonded)
- Having shapes like a diamond or lozenge.
- 1820, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in The Poetical Works of John Keats, Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske, & Company, published 1884, page 193:
- A casement high and triple-arch'd there was, / All garlanded with carven imageries / Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, / And diamonded with panes of quaint device […]
- Adorned with diamonds.
- 1860, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Behavior”, in The Conduct of Life:
- [W]hen in Paris the chief of the police enters a ballroom, so many diamonded pretenders shrink and make themselves as inconspicuous as they can, or give him a supplicating look as they pass.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “diamonded”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.