necklaced
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
necklaced (not comparable)
- Wearing a necklace.
- 1881, H[arry] W[illiam] Lumsden, transl., Beowulf: An Old English Poem, Translated into Modern Rhymes, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], page 20:
- To each she gave a goblet rich till by good hap at last / The necklaced queen with courtly grace before Beowulf trod, / Gave him the cup of mead and greeted him, with thanks to God / In seemly words that He had given her heart’s desire indeed / To find an earl whom she could trust to help them in their need.
- 1888, Frank H. Converse, The Island Treasure; or, Harry Darrel’s Fortunes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt, page 207:
- “Great chief—Powana. Him sleep! Bimeby wake,” grunted the necklaced gentleman, who seemed quite proud of his familiarity with the English tongue; […]
- 1993, Dagoberto Gilb, The Magic of Blood, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 199:
- Exotic colognes, plush, dark nightclubs, maitais and daquiris, necklaced ladies in satin gowns, misty and sexy like in a tequila ad.
Verb edit
necklaced
- simple past and past participle of necklace