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herringboned en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Having a herringbone (zigzag) pattern.
    • When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough. 1899, I[srael] Zangwill, “The Keeper of Conscience”, in “They that Walk in Darkness”: Ghetto Tragedies, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Jewish Publication Society of America, →OCLC, section VII, page 289:

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more herringboned Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most herringboned Degree=Sup lexicographic

herringboned en · VERB

Meanings

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