Cataphracted
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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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