awninged

English

Etymology

awning +‎ -ed

Adjective

awninged (not comparable)

  1. Having an awning.
    • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence‎, New York: Appleton, Book 2, Chapter 31, p. 309:
      […] he thought how often he had seen [the house] blazing with lights, its steps awninged and carpeted, and carriages waiting in double line to draw up at the curbstone.
    • 1951, William Styron, chapter 2, in Lie Down in Darkness‎, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 52:
      He stood in the shadows of the awninged terrace, a bit dizzy from the climb:
    • 2004, Philip Roth, chapter 7, in The Plot Against America‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 255:
      […] we sat spooning our sundaes in the awninged semidarkness of the cool pharmacy,
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