2. Adjective. Adorned or embellished. ¹
3. Adjective. (qualifier in combination) Having a specified number or type of decks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decked
1. deck [v] - See also: deck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decked
Literary usage of Decked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Years of Rapid Transit, 1864-1917 by James Blaine Walker (1918)
"The engineers were equal to the emergency and devised what has since become known
as the '' decked roadway" method of subway construction. ..."
2. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... THAT decked HER BREAST. BY WILLIAM BARNES. (Dorsetshire Dialect.) [WILLIAM
BARNES, poet, philologist, antiquarian enthusiast, and "character," was born ..."
3. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"... the village girls assemble, dressed in white or bright colours, decked with
flowers, and wearing chaplets of spring flowers in their hair. ..."
4. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1836)
"He appears to have been about thirty-five years of age, has on a large hat decked
with feathers, and wears a close doublet with a belt, and a large frill ..."
5. The National Arithmetic, on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and by Benjamin Greenleaf (1855)
"What is the tonnage of a single-decked vessel, whose length is 65ft., ... If the
vessel be double-decked, take the length thereof from the fore part of the ..."
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