lilied

English

Etymology

lily +‎ -ed

Adjective

lilied (comparative more lilied, superlative most lilied)

1. Covered with, or having many, lilies.
   • 1634, John Milton, Arcades‎^[1], III. Song:

     Nymphs and Shepherds, dance no more / By sandy Ladon's lilied banks;

   • 1906, Percy MacKaye, Jeanne d'Arc, Act III, New York: Macmillan, p. 114, [2]

     She drives you from the bridge. Her armour!— Now— / Oh, she is blown about and fluttered o'er / By clouds of little golden butterflies, / And where she thrusts her lilied banner through, / She glitters double—in the air and river.

   • 1935, John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds‎^[3], Prologue:

     The summer term had been busy and stuffy, and to a Rugby player there were few attractions in punts among lilied backwaters.