pounced
Appearance
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pounced
- simple past and past participle of pounce
Adjective
[edit]pounced (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Ornamented with perforations or dots.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- Gilt bowls pounced or pierced.
References
[edit]- “pounced”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.