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enameled

enameled adjective: covered or coated with enamel (any sense). Also the simple past and past participle of enamel.

Adjective

enameled (comparative more enameled, superlative most enameled)

  1. Covered or coated with enamel (any sense)
    • this must not be confounded with the mark of the tooth, which is entirely different; the mark being the outer, and the cavity the inner hole, and which is found in every young tooth not yet worn down to the kernel, which tooth consists merely of an enameled shell, filled during the life time of the...1867, Louis Brandt, An Infallible Guide to Discover the Age of Horses, page 9
    • In her bathhouse, in her old enameled bathtub, was a cowboy.2014, Carol Grace, Wild Mustang Billionaire
  2. Glossy, colorful and sleek.
    • In her essays on diary in The Novel of the Future (1968), Nin articulates her case directly, connecting diary and other subjective modes to articulation that moves beyond the "slicker, glossier, the more enameled surface”: “the surface does not contain a key to authentic experience, the truth lies...2014, Kylie Cardell, Dear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary, page 25
    • The annual revista . . . deserves the most golden, the most enameled, the most complementary adjectives.2016, Joao Silva, Entertaining Lisbon

Also used as

enameled is also the simple past and past participle of enamel.

Examples of enameled in a sentence

  • In rare cases, an enameled plaquette can be mechanically attached to a button of a different base material.2024, Karen L. Cohen, Barbara Barrans, Enamel Buttons: An Essential Resource for Collectors, page 40:
  • Everyone there was better dressed than in the bars he'd visited earlier—sleeker, more enameled.2023, Avram B. Cross, In The Line of Fire:

Forms of enameled

comparativemore enameled
superlativemost enameled

Words formed from enameled

Phrases with enameled

Questions about enameled

What does enameled mean?
Enameled means covered or coated with enamel (any sense).
How do you use enameled in a sentence?
In rare cases, an enameled plaquette can be mechanically attached to a button of a different base material.
What part of speech is enameled?
Enameled is an adjective.

Words near enameled in the dictionary

  1. enamdars
  2. enamel
  3. enamel paper
  4. enamel papers
  5. enamelar
  6. enameled
  7. enameled wire
  8. enameled wires
  9. enameledware
  10. enameler
  11. enamelers

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