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BELTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does belted mean?
• BELTED (adjective)
The adjective BELTED has 1 sense:
1. having or provided with a belt
Familiarity information: BELTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or provided with a belt
Context example:
a belted dress
Similar:
banded (characterized by a band of especially white around the body)
belt-fed (using belted ammunition)
belt-like; beltlike (resembling a belt around something)
Antonym:
unbelted (lacking a belt)
Context examples
For every horse you see a belted knight hath herbergage in the town, for, as I learn, the men-at-arms and archers have already gone forward to Dax.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Dutch belted rabbit is commonly utilized in biomedical research for toxicology studies, ophthalmological research, and developmental toxicity studies.
(Dutch Belted Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)
No squire of mine, he said, shall ever make jest of a belted knight.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A smaller sized lagomorph, the Dutch belted rabbit has black hindquarters, ears and black patches around the eyes while the feet, face, and front half of the body are white.
(Dutch Belted Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)
We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded gilt nineteen-hundreds.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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