diamonded

English

Verb

diamonded

  1. simple past and past participle of diamond

Adjective

diamonded (comparative more diamonded, superlative most diamonded)

  1. Having figures 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “diamonded”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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