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cataphracted en · ADJ

Etymology

From cataphract + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Covered with, or wearing, a cataphract.
    • The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds. 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 121: