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▪ I. fretted, ppl. a.1|ˈfrɛtɪd|
[f. fret v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Eaten or worn into holes, chafed.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 121 To make the freated place as stronge or stronger then any other. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, ccclxxxii, His Raigne was All one thin Much-fretted veile of Loyaltie. 1821J. Baillie Met. Leg., Lady G. B. xxxi, Through fretted hose and garment rent.
2. Worried, vexed, chafed, distressed.
1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. Pref., The fears of these fretted philosophers will by and by subside. 1797–1803Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 203 Feelings are rather fretted than melancholy. 1864E. A. Murray E. Norman I. 7 Mrs. Townshend's..countenance..bore that fretted expression which [etc.]. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 136 Like ruffled plumes upon a fretted bird.
3. Of water: Raised in small waves, ruffled.
1855H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. iii. 416 The sentiment of filial piety, which ought to flow in a placid current, is changed into a broken and fretted tide.
▪ II. fretted, ppl. a.2|ˈfrɛtɪd|
[f. fret v.2 + -ed1.]
1. Adorned with carving in elaborate patterns; carved or wrought into decorative patterns.
1552Huloet, s.v. Beame, Beame of a rouffe, not beynge inbowed or fretted. 1667Pepys Diary 3 May, The Duke of York's chamber..is now fretted at the top. 1711Pope Temp. Fame 138 Wide vaults appear, and roofs of fretted gold. 1750Gray Elegy 39 Thro' the long-drawn isle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 1813Byron Br. Abydos ii. v, And round her lamp of fretted gold Bloom flowers in urns of China's mould. 1872Ruskin Eagle's Nest §92 The fretted pinnacles of Rouen.
b. transf. and fig. in various senses.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 725 His necke in many a ruge Yfretted grete. 1784Cowper Task v. 118 Embossed, and fretted wild The growing wonder takes a thousand shapes Capricious. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 205, I..watched..the moon ascending in the fretted vault. 1856E. Capern Poems (ed. 2) 11 The antler'd oak, the fretted thorn. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 78 The slope..its termination being the fretted coping of the precipice.
2. Her. Interlaced. Cf. fretty a.1
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 177 Burley beareth palee of 6 parts A and B, fretted with a barrulet in fesse G, chiefe and baste of the same. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iv. iii. 195 The Field is Pearle, a Purse open, the long strings thereof pendant, Fretted, Nowed, Buttoned and Tasselled. |