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plumbered

plumbered adjective: equipped with plumbing. Also the simple past and past participle of plumber.

Adjective

plumbered (not comparable)

  1. (informal, rare) Equipped with plumbing.
    • One and all the home-grown film public has reared its noses that twitch delightedly over the lavishly plumbered (coined word!) bathrooms of Cecil B. De Mille,^([sic]) who knows his sunken tubs, wash basins and bath mats.1927 September 23, Q. E. D. [pseudonym], “Movie Close-Ups”, in The Evening Sun, volume XXXV, number 136, Baltimore, Md., →OCLC, page 21, column 1
    • Goals shift slowly—just now we have physical comfort and safety as prime illusions; but it is almost certain that life would offer more and richer gratifications to imaginatively developed men if we could have a little less of these modern idols, and a little more of that divine freedom, adventure...1929 October 30, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “To James Ferdinand Morton”, in August Derleth, Donald Wandrei, editors, Selected Letters, 1929-1931, Sauk City, Wis.: Arkham House, published 1971...

Also used as

plumbered is also the simple past and past participle of plumber.

Words formed from plumbered

Phrases with plumbered

Questions about plumbered

What does plumbered mean?
Plumbered means equipped with plumbing.
What part of speech is plumbered?
Plumbered is an adjective.

Words near plumbered in the dictionary

  1. plumber's helper
  2. plumber's helpers
  3. plumber's smile
  4. plumber's snake
  5. plumber's snakes
  6. plumbered
  7. plumbered up
  8. plumberies
  9. plumbering
  10. plumbering up
  11. plumberless

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