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sashed en · ADJ

Etymology

From sash + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Fitted with a sash (window opener).
    • A skylight of moderate dimension was overhead and at each end of the oblong space were two sashed port-hole windows easily convertible back into embrasures for short carronades. 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
    • Seeing sashed windows in town, he got them into his own house. 1868, Thomas Richmond, The local records of Stockton and the neighbourhood:
  2. (not-comparable) Having a sash (cloth decoration).
    • […] and even middle-class matrons serving in the Sanitary Commission adopted an 'army costume' of loose trousers covered by a sashed kilt and kirtle. 2000, Laurence Senelick, The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre:
    • […] Certainly / there was impressive swagger in that / ready, high-elbowed stance; belted / and sashed in threaded dragon teeth / they waited in self-imposed restraint— / fine ornament on power unassailable— / for their cue 1971, Chinua Achebe, “Public Execution in Pictures”, in Collected Poems, New York: Anchor, published 2004, page 53:

Synonyms

besashed