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haberdashed

haberdashed adjective: decorated with ribbons, trinkets, etc.

Adjective

haberdashed (comparative more haberdashed, superlative most haberdashed)

  1. Decorated with ribbons, trinkets, etc.
    • When he showed that petulant old warhorse of an artist, Horace Vernet, haberdashed with medals, Nadar had no trouble revealing a seeker of official honors.1981, Vicki Goldberg, Photography in print: writings from 1816 to the present, page 135
    • Toward the end of the masterly “Negro With a Hat” (as the Napoleonically haberdashed Garvey was derided by W. E. B. Du Bois), Garvey is quoted as having said: “We were the first Fascists.2008 April 20, Paul Devlin, “Black Star”, in New York Times

Forms of haberdashed

comparativemore haberdashed
superlativemost haberdashed

Origin of haberdashed

Related to haberdashery. See -ed.

Questions about haberdashed

What does haberdashed mean?
Haberdashed means decorated with ribbons, trinkets, etc.
What part of speech is haberdashed?
Haberdashed is an adjective.

Words near haberdashed in the dictionary

  1. Haber syndrome
  2. haberah
  3. haberdascher
  4. haberdaschers
  5. haberdash
  6. haberdashed
  7. haberdasher
  8. haberdasher of pronouns
  9. haberdasheress
  10. haberdasheries
  11. haberdashers

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