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bodkined en · ADJ

Etymology

From bodkin + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Fastened with a bodkin.
    • These maidens, with their golden-bodkined hair, were enchanted when they found that I had come from England; for at first they had taken me for a Frenchwoman. 1853, Chambers' Home Book, Or Pocket Miscellany:
    • Dressed in their best quilted tunics and cloth pantaloons, with hair oiled, mounted and bodkined precisely as worn by their ancestors two thousand years ago, toes thrust in paper-soled blue slippers […] 1875, Woman's Work for Woman: A Union Magazine, volume 5, page 147: