archipelagoed
English edit
Etymology edit
From archipelago + -ed.
Adjective edit
archipelagoed (not comparable)
- (rare) Consisting of or arranged in the form of an archipelago.
- 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XLIV, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 572:
- Imagine a poor exile contemplating that inert thing; and imagine an angel suddenly sweeping down out of a better land and setting before him a mighty porter-house steak van inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the gridddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most unimpeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; […]
- 1954, Clemence Dane [pseudonym; Winifred Ashton], The Flower Girls, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company Inc, published 1955, page 538:
- A vast drugget had been laid down, a buffet ran right across the stage some six feet from the back wall, and tables and little golden chairs were archipelago'd in corners.
- 2015, Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf, New York, N.Y., Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 215:
- The German boys whose names all sounded the same were archipelagoed around the edge of the room, being interviewed by the Reichssender or napping.
Verb edit
archipelagoed
- simple past and past participle of archipelago
References edit
- “archipelagoed, adj.”, in OED Online
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