figured

From figure +‎ -ed.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪɡəd/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪɡ(j)ɚd/

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ɪɡəd

figured

1. simple past and past participle of figure

figured (comparative more figured, superlative most figured)

1. (of a natural material) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.

   Figured wood is especially sought after for its distinctive texture.

2. Adorned with a figure or figures.
   • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:

     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 446:

     Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.

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