diamondedadj.
1.
a. Adorned with or wearing diamonds.
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1860 R. W. Emerson Behaviour in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 166 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.
1885 A. J. C. Hare Stud. Russia iii. 143 Diamonded saddle-cloths and trappings.
b. figurative. Adorned as with diamonds.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [adjective] > set or furnished with
diamonded1830
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 144 The diamonded night.
1831 J. Wilson Unimore i. 26 Dew-diamonded daisies.
1860 Ld. 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.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > quadrilateral > diamond, lozenge, or rhomb
lozenge-like1551
lozengy1602
diamond-cut1637
diamonded1642
lozenge1658
rhomboidal1658
rhomboideal1677
rhomboid1681
rhombic1701
rhomboidicala1703
star-cut1704
rhombeous1773
rhombed1776
rhombiform1825
lozenge-shaped1833
1642 T. Fuller Holy State 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.
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 95 A casement high and triple-arch'd..And diamonded with panes of quaint device.
1880 Dorothy 25 Came through the diamonded panes.
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1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 138 These pointed and diamonded speeches, which doe indeed leave a sting..in the mind of the pious Auditor.
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