Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Worked or woven in.
- adjective Having a decorative pattern worked or woven in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wrought or worked in or into; having something (specifically, figures or patterns) worked into it.
- Wrought or worked in or into; having something (specifically, figures or patterns) worked into it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
design that has beenworked orwoven in
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a decorative pattern worked or woven in
Etymologies
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Examples
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That wear his name inwrought with many a golden line!
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 07: Songs of Many Seasons Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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That wear his name inwrought with many a golden line!
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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But there was still enough left to form a handsome knob behind, and some curls beneath inwrought with a few hairs like silver wires were very becoming.
Wessex Tales 2006
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The tone of her latter words was equivocal, and while he remained in doubt whether a gentle irony was or was not inwrought with their sound, she swept lightly round and left him alone.
Wessex Tales 2006
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The saddler gave it at so low a price that we perceived he must have tacitly abated something from the visual demand, and when we did not try to beat him down, his wife went again into that inner room and came out with an iron-holder of scarlet flannel backed with canvas, and fringed with magenta, and richly inwrought with a Moorish design, in white, yellow, green, and purple.
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"Ask, O my lord, thy want," quoth the servitor, and quoth the other: "I demand of thee a carpet of the primest brocade all gold-inwrought which, when unrolled and outstretched, shall extend hence to the Sultan's palace, in order that the Lady Badr al-Budur may, when coming hither, pace upon it and not tread common earth."
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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And when the folk of that ward sighted such mighty fine sight and marvelous spectacle, all stood at gaze and they considered the forms and figures of the handmaids, marveling at their beauty and loveliness, for each and every wore robes inwrought with gold and studded with jewels, no dress being worth less than a thousand dinars.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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In a thousand ways the well-being of individuals is conditioned by the acts of others, so inwrought is this representative principle into our human life.
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As regards all these three elements, De Quincey's childhood was prosperous; afterwards, vicissitudes came, -- mighty changes capable of affecting all other transmutations, but thoroughly impotent to annul the inwrought grace of a pre-established beauty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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Church's shoulders to reach to his ancles, and curiously inwrought with figures of birds, beasts and flowers.
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward
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