Definition of Sprinkled

1. Verb. (past of sprinkle) ¹

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Definition of Sprinkled

1. sprinkle [v] - See also: sprinkle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprinkled

springlike
springloaded
springs
springtail
springtails
springtide
springtides
springtime
springtimes
springwater
springwaters
springwood
springwoods
springy
sprinkle
sprinkled (current term)
sprinkler
sprinkler system
sprinklered
sprinklering
sprinklers
sprinkles
sprinkling
sprinklings
sprinkly
sprint
sprinted
sprinter
sprinters
sprinting

Literary usage of Sprinkled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... -sprinkled bunting ! flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag — long yet your road, and lined with bloody death, For the prize I see at issue at ..."

2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"O hasten flag of man — O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags o! symbol — run up above them all, Flag of stars ! thick-sprinkled bunting ! kings ..."

3. The Art of Bookbinding: A Practical Treatise by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (1890)
"sprinkled Edges.—Most shops have a colour always ready, usually a reddish brown, which they use for the whole of their sprinkled edge books. ..."

4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Under an oak his servants spread a feast 650 Or tended on the offering of an ox, Whilst women sprinkled all the meats with meal. ..."

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