SPRIGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sprigged mean? 

• SPRIGGED (adjective)
  The adjective SPRIGGED has 1 sense:

1. decorated with designs of sprigs

  Familiarity information: SPRIGGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPRIGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decorated with designs of sprigs

Context example:

sprigged muslin

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

“Buff and blue are always very gentlemanlike. But a sprigged waistcoat would have been better.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You know I wanted you, when we first came, not to buy that sprigged muslin, but you would.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Yes, I know exactly what you will say: Friday, went to the Lower Rooms; wore my sprigged muslin robe with blue trimmings—plain black shoes—appeared to much advantage; but was strangely harassed by a queer, half-witted man, who would make me dance with him, and distressed me by his nonsense.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)