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▪ I. ˈpadded, ppl. a.1
[f. pad v.1]
Trodden, beaten firm and hard by treading; fig. (?) hardened or rendered callous as by treading.
1583Babington Commandm. iv. (1637) 36 They..who with benummed soules, parched, padded, senslesse, and every way most hardned hearts..lie and sleepe on the one side idle. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 199 Only a hedge⁓row track, or padded balk.
▪ II. ˈpadded, ppl. a.2
[f. pad n.3, v.2]
Furnished or filled out with pads or padding; expanded by the insertion of needless or extraneous matter; impregnated throughout with a dye or the like by padding (see pad v.2 3). padded cell, a room in a lunatic asylum or prison, having the walls padded, to prevent the person confined in it from injuring himself against them; also fig. and transf.; also (with hyphen) attrib.; padded room (see quot. 1976); padded shoulders, the shoulders of a suit, etc., padded to give the appearance of breadth; also fig.; padded soap.
1799[see pad. n.3 3]. 1823Lockhart Reg. Dalton ii. vi. (1842) 155 A padded foot-stool sustained in advance his gouty left leg. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 655 This mode of drying the padded calicoes. 1846Tennyson New Timon, What! it's you, The padded man, that wears the stays. 1862Sala Seven Sons III. i. 5 Who is so sane but he may need..the padded room some day? 1880M. E. Braddon Barbara vii, In the padded corner of a Pullman car. 1891S. P. Sadtler Handbk. Industr. Org. Chem. ii. 61 Soaps made in this way retain all the glycerine..and belong to the class known as ‘filled’ or ‘padded’ soaps. 1935H. G. Wells Things to Come 14 The fact that in the future various light apparatus such as a portable radio, electric torch, notebook, will have to be carried on the person and that this will probably necessitate a widening of those broadly padded shoulders which are already necessary in the costume of contemporary men because of their wallets and fountain pens. a1936Kipling Something of Myself (1937) vii. 176 A ‘comfortable nursery’ proved to be a dark padded cell at the end of a discreet passage! 1959N. N. Holland First Mod. Comedies 39 ‘Dapperwit’ implies a comparison of clothes and wit, as though Dapperwit's pretensions to wit were a kind of padded shoulders to cover his actually feeble intelligence. 1961Cockett & Hilton Dyeing of Cellulosic Fibres xi. 361 Where vat dyes are concerned, development of the padded goods with alkaline reducing agent may be carried out discontinuously on jigs. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ii. 48 Of the various possible sound-deadening systems, it is best to try to avoid those which give a padded-cell effect. 1963Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves xxii. 167 Stiffy, who is pure padded cell from the foundations up, was planning to marry the Rev. H. P. Pinker. 1972D. Hildebrand in K. Venkataraman Chem. Synthetic Dyes VI. iii. 424 If the substantivity of the dye is insufficient, the dye will migrate when the padded goods are dried under inhomogeneous drying conditions. 1973Jewish Chron. 19 Jan. 14/5 To give readers some idea of what passes for dialogue in the padded cell of the drama department, here is the kind of exchange in which Mr Mackie specialises. 1976Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 207 An uncontrollable patient may be sent to the quiet room or QR, formerly called the padded room. 1977Time 3 Jan. 56/3 You will recall that the last we saw of Inspector Clouseau he had succeeded in..driving his immediate superior, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, completely, totally, padded-cell mad. |