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bitumed en · ADJ

Etymology

From bitume + -ed.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Smeared or covered with bitumen.
   • Sir, we haue a Chiſt beneath the hatches, / Caulkt and bittumed ready. c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
   • The basket of bulrushes for the infant Moses, when thoroughly bitumed, was well adapted for the object for which it was made. 1878 August 1, “Lesson LXXXVI”, in The Sabbath School Magazine, volume XXX, number viii, page 191:

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