knopped

English edit

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Etymology edit

From Middle English knopped. By surface analysis, knop +‎ -ed.

Adjective edit

knopped (comparative more knopped, superlative most knopped)

(obsolete) Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “knopped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Middle English edit

Etymology edit

knop +‎ -ed

Adjective edit

knopped

Knopped; having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons.
- c. 1370s. Unknown. The Romaunt of the Rose. 7258-60.
  And greye clothis not ful clene,
  But fretted ful of tatarwagges,
  And highe shoes, knopped with dagges,
  And gray clothes not fully clean,
  But adorned with ragged shreds,
  And high shoes, knobbed with patches,

Descendants edit

English: knopped