WATERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does watered mean? 

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

1. (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern

Synonyms:

moire; watered

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

Cyanotoxins can be found in plant-based foods, which have been watered with water that contains them.

(Steaming Fish More Healthy than Boiling, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“I've watered there with a trader I was cook in.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

On that evening the horses had been exercised and watered as usual, and the stables were locked up at nine o’clock.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Renfield went on without noticing:—"When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn't the same; it was like tea after the teapot had been watered."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And indeed to watch him dallying with a little gobbet of bread, or sipping his cup of thrice-watered wine, is enough to make a man feel shame at his own hunger.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then she took it, and went to her mother’s grave and planted it there; and cried so much that it was watered with her tears; and there it grew and became a fine tree.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I got some breakfast on the Heath, and walked back to Doctors' Commons, along the watered roads and through a pleasant smell of summer flowers, growing in gardens and carried into town on hucksters' heads, intent on this first effort to meet our altered circumstances.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin shoes and a bride’s wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked in water.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In front of them there lay a broad plain, watered by two winding streams and covered with grass, stretching away to where, in the furthest distance, the towers of Burgos bristled up against the light blue morning sky.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)