sashed
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[edit]- Rhymes: -æʃt
Adjective
[edit]sashed (not comparable)
- Fitted with a sash (window opener).
- 1868, Thomas Richmond, The local records of Stockton and the neighbourhood:
- Seeing sashed windows in town, he got them into his own house.
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd[1], London: Constable & Co.:
- A skylight of moderate dimension was overhead and at each end of the oblong space were two sashed port-hole windows easily convertible back into embrasures for short carronades.
- Having a sash (cloth decoration).
- 1971, Chinua Achebe, “Public Execution in Pictures”, in Collected Poems, New York: Anchor, published 2004, page 53:
- […] Certainly / there was impressive swagger in that / ready, high-elbowed stance; belted / and sashed in threaded dragon teeth / they waited in self-imposed restraint— / fine ornament on power unassailable— / for their cue
- 2000, Laurence Senelick, The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre:
- […] and even middle-class matrons serving in the Sanitary Commission adopted an 'army costume' of loose trousers covered by a sashed kilt and kirtle.