diamonded

English

Verb

diamonded

1. simple past and past participle of diamond

Adjective

diamonded (comparative more diamonded, superlative most diamonded)

1. 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 […]

2. 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

• bediamonded
• undiamonded

 

References

• “diamonded”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.