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amuleted en · ADJ

Etymology

From amulet + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Adorned with an amulet.
   • Their shields all amuleted, the four points decorated for war with feather tufts, leaned against their spears, which were planted in the ground, or reclined against trees and shrubs. 1930, Jack Herbert Driberg, People of the Small Arrow, Payson and Clarke, page 48:
   • Each woman appeared to have taken a bit of the stream for herself, tucked up her dress, stepped into the water, and emptied her sack and her baskets into it; the ruddy hue of her flowers, being reflected, cast a glow on the olive-coloured faces, and the pretty amuleted arms were plunged again and again among the roses till they were all well washed, or rather wetted. 1868, “The Flowers and Fruits of Palestine”, in The Illustrated Magazine, volume XXV, London: Rogerson and Tuxford, […], page 38, column 1:
   • The charmed, amuleted child now went and stood by her; from a close distance, he contemplated the painted mammae. 1979, Nuruddin Farah, Sweet and Sour Milk, London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, published 1980, →ISBN, page 147:

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