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Belted
Belt′ed
,Adj.
1.
Encircled by, or secured with, a belt;
as, a
; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; belted
plaidas, a
. belted
knight; a belted
earl2.
Marked with a band or circle;
as, a
. belted
stalk3.
Worn in, or suspended from, the belt.
Three men with
belted
brands. Sir W. Scott.
Belted cattle
, cattle originally from Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; – called also
blanketed cattle
.Definition 2024
belted
belted
English
Verb
belted
- simple past tense and past participle of belt
Adjective
belted (not comparable)
- (of a garment) Fitted with a belt.
- 1952, “The Way Things Are,” Time, 7 April, 1952,
- Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: “A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back...”
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 6,
- She was a doctor's receptionist, and wore a blouse and skirt under her belted mac.
- 1952, “The Way Things Are,” Time, 7 April, 1952,
- Wearing a belt.
- 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry),”
- How the bayonets gleamed and glistened, as we looked far down, and listened
- To the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers!
- 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry),”
- (of breeds of cattle) Characterized by a white band around the body.
- Belted Dutch cattle
- Belted Galloway