haberdashed
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to haberdashery. See -ed.
Adjective
[edit]haberdashed (comparative more haberdashed, superlative most haberdashed)
- Decorated with ribbons, trinkets, etc.
- 1981, Vicki Goldberg, Photography in print: writings from 1816 to the present, page 135:
- When he showed that petulant old warhorse of an artist, Horace Vernet, haberdashed with medals, Nadar had no trouble revealing a seeker of official honors.
- 2008 April 20, Paul Devlin, “Black Star”, in New York Times[1]:
- Toward the end of the masterly “Negro With a Hat” (as the Napoleonically haberdashed Garvey was derided by W. E. B. Du Bois), Garvey is quoted as having said: “We were the first Fascists.