amuleted
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amuleted (not comparable)
- Adorned with an amulet.
- 1868, “The Flowers and Fruits of Palestine”, in The Illustrated Magazine, volume XXV, London: Rogerson and Tuxford, […], page 38, column 1:
- Each woman appeared to have taken a bit of the stream for herself, tucked up her dress, stepped into the water, and emptied her sack and her baskets into it; the ruddy hue of her flowers, being reflected, cast a glow on the olive-coloured faces, and the pretty amuleted arms were plunged again and again among the roses till they were all well washed, or rather wetted.
- 1930, Jack Herbert Driberg, People of the Small Arrow, Payson and Clarke, page 48:
- Their shields all amuleted, the four points decorated for war with feather tufts, leaned against their spears, which were planted in the ground, or reclined against trees and shrubs.
- 1979, Nuruddin Farah, Sweet and Sour Milk, London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, published 1980, →ISBN, page 147:
- The charmed, amuleted child now went and stood by her; from a close distance, he contemplated the painted mammae.
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