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▪ I. splashed, ppl. a.1|splæʃt| [f. splash v.1] 1. Marked with splashes or irregular patches of colour.
1765Treat. Dom. Pigeons 56 In decline of life they as gradually decrease, till they become sometimes a mottled, splashed, or whole colour. 1854Poultry Chron. I. 124 Only tipped with black, or with splashed and smudgy feathers. 1858Skyring Builder's Prices 95 Imitation granite, or splashed work. 1882Pall Mall G. 21 June 10/1 A globular vase of splashed crimson and purple crackle. 2. Wet, soiled, or stained with splashes of water, mud, or the like.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. i. vii, O ye hapless dulled-bright Seigneurs, and hydrophobic splashed Nankeens. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. 126 As the multitude rocked to and fro, a splashed rider spurred through the streets. 1891C. T. C. James Rom. Rigmarole 167 Two or three splashed and booted men stood round about, staring at me. ▪ II. splashed, ppl. a.2|splæʃt| [f. splash v.2] Pleached; secured or strengthened by pleaching.
1886Field 23 Jan. 96/1 A high splashed fence on a bank, reminding one more of Dorsetshire than Wilts, emptied no less than four saddles. 1890Blackw. Mag. Oct. 459 No cattle can storm a moorland splashed bank. |