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corseted en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English corset Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English corseted From corset + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Wearing a corset.
    • [A] lightly moustached and heftily corseted matron, true blue and scaresomely indigenous, cried out in reply, ‘Not at all, dear. What's Irish about him? He's a British subject living in Ulster!’ 1990, Richard Kearney, Migrations: The Irish at Home & Abroad, Wolfhound Press, published 1976, page 23:

Deriveds

uncorseted

corseted en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree English corset Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English corseted From corset + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of corset
    form of corset