Tinctured
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of tincture form-of, participle, past
- 1 Coloured or stained with a dye or pigment; coloured, dyed, stained, tinged. also, figuratively
"Six wings he wore, to shade / His lineaments divine; the pair that clad / Each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breast / With regal ornament; the middle pair / Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round / Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold / And colours dipt in Heaven; the third his feet / Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail, / Sky-tinctured grain."
Example
More examples"Six wings he wore, to shade / His lineaments divine; the pair that clad / Each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breast / With regal ornament; the middle pair / Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round / Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold / And colours dipt in Heaven; the third his feet / Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail, / Sky-tinctured grain."
Etymology
From tincture (verb) + -ed.
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