Cataphracted

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered with, or wearing, a cataphract. not-comparable

    "The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds."

Example

More examples

"The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds."

Etymology

From cataphract + -ed.

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