bediamonded

English

Etymology

be- +‎ diamonded

Adjective

bediamonded (not comparable)

1. Wearing or featuring a diamond or diamonds.
   • 1890, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four, London: Spencer Blackett:

     In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.

   • 1917, O. Henry, “The Snow Man”, in Waifs and Strays‎^[1], Doubleday, pages 120–121:

     "My fren'," said Etienne, exhaling a large cloud from his cigarette and patting Ross lightly on the shoulder with a bediamonded hand which hung limp from a yard or more of bony arm, […]

   • 1989, Sarah Shankman, Then Hang All The Liars‎^[2], Pocket Books, →ISBN:

     She crossed her bediamonded wrists across her breast so that her fingertips touched both sides of her throat.