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ˈdiamonded, a.
[f. diamond n. or v. + -ed.]
1. Adorned with or wearing diamonds.
1860Emerson Cond. Life, Behaviour (1861) 111 As when, in Paris, the chief of the police enters a ballroom, so many diamonded pretenders shrink, and make themselves as inconspicuous as they can. 1885A. J. C. Hare Russia iii. 143 Diamonded saddle-cloths and trappings.
b. fig. Adorned as with diamonds.
1830Tennyson Poems 144 The diamonded night. 1831J. Wilson Unimore i. 26 Dew-diamonded daisies. 1860Ld. Lytton Lucile i. iv. §6 The scarp'd ravaged mountains..Were alive with the diamonded shy salamander.
2. Marked or furnished with lozenge-shaped figures or parts; having the figure of a diamond.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. vi. 382 Break a stone..or lop a bough..and one shall behold the grain thereof..diamonded or streaked in the fashion of a lozenge. 1820Keats Eve St. Agnes xxiv, A casement high and triple-arch'd..And diamonded with panes of quaint device. 1880Dorothy 25 Came through the diamonded panes.
†3. fig. ? Endowed with the characteristics of the diamond; brilliant and keen. Obs.
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii. 138 These pointed and diamonded speeches, which doe indeed leave a sting..in the mind of the pious Auditor. |