from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Tied or bound with cords.
adjective Furnished with or made of cords.
adjective Ribbed or twilled.
adjective Stacked in cords.
from The Century Dictionary.
Bound, girded, or fastened with cords.
Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.
Made of cords; furnished with cords.
Ribbed or furrowed, as by cords: as, corded cloth; a corded pattern.
In heraldry, represented as bound about, or wound with cords, as the cross in the accompanying figure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Bound or fastened with cords.
adjective Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.
adjective obsolete Made of cords.
adjective Striped or ribbed with cords.
adjective (Her.) Bound about, or wound, with cords.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Fitted with a cord.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective of textiles; having parallel raised lines
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Examples
Lancer pulled up short and made a shallow bow to the man, who wore an old but carefully-ironed white shirt with a buttoned collar much too large for him, from which his thin corded neck extended like a sunburnt plant stalk.
Lancer pulled up short and made a shallow bow to the man, who wore an old but carefully-ironed white shirt with a buttoned collar much too large for him, from which his thin corded neck extended like a sunburnt plant stalk.
Piqué pee-kay • Group of durable fabrics characterized by corded effects either warp-wise or filling-wise, most notably created with a waffle texture similar to that of a honeycomb weave.
Piqué pee-kay • Group of durable fabrics characterized by corded effects either warp-wise or filling-wise, most notably created with a waffle texture similar to that of a honeycomb weave.
Piqué pee-kay • Group of durable fabrics characterized by corded effects either warp-wise or filling-wise, most notably created with a waffle texture similar to that of a honeycomb weave.
The portrait forming the centrepiece is like that on the values of 1868 though the medallion is enclosed within a "corded" circle instead of an ordinary plain line.
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