enamelled

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
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

Verb

enamel (third-person singular simple present enamels, present participle (US) enameling or (UK) enamelling, simple past and past participle (US) enameled or (UK) enamelled)

1. (transitive) To coat or decorate with enamel.
   • Their plumed helmes are wrought with beaten golde,
     Their ſwords enameld, and about their neckes
     Hangs maſſie chaines of golde downe to the waſte,
     In euery part exceding braue and rich.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
2. (transitive) To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.
   • Oft he [the serpent] bowed / His turret crest and sleek enamelled neck.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
3. (transitive) To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.
   • to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth
4. (transitive) To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

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