pedestalledpedestaledadj.
/ˈpɛdᵻst(ə)ld/, U.S. /ˈpɛdəst(ə)ld/ Provided with, set upon, or having a pedestal. Also figurative.
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1738 J. F. Fritsch tr. G. de Lairesse Art of Painting viii. iv. 384 In bringing many Sorts of coloured Marbles together, we may.., in a Frontispiece either single or double colonaded and pedestaled [Du. door pedestalen ondersteund], very agreeably dispose them thus.
1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 19 Each flower frequently contains three perfect florets; never less than two, and a pedestalled rudiment.
1852 H. Melville Pierre i. ii. 4 Pierre..almost advanced himself to that mature stand-point in Time, where his pedestaled mother so long had stood.
1889 Athenæum 14 Dec. 825/3 The clay counterparts of the ‘cordoned’ or pedestalled vases.
1893 E. Saltus Madam Sapphira 38 The pedestalled lamps, the yellow shaded candles.
1939 J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. of Crete ii. 49 At Knossos the most common Sub-Neolithic shapes seem to be open bowls [etc.]..and pedestalled bowls.
1961 S. Plath Coll. Poems (1981) 158 Beautifully smug As Venus, pedestaled on a half-shell.
1985 V. S. Pritchett Man of Lett. 34 We owe this romantic and pedestalled conception of women partly to the lame man's feeling of inferiority.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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