deckedadj.
/dɛkt/ 1.
a. Adorned, embellished, set out: see the verb.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [adjective] > ornamented or decorated
depaint?c1225
ornedc1384
trappeda1400
attiredc1400
bolled1400
picked?c1425
bedighta1440
garnishedc1440
well-apparelledc1450
decorate1460
adorned?1473
ornate?a1475
anorneda1500
decked?a1500
exornate1509
redimite?a1513
well-decked1530
adornate1539
prankedc1550
entrapped?1553
bested1558
distinct1596
embellished1598
well-tricked1599
enamelled1604
gaudeda1616
broidered1616
farded1637
phalerated1656
adorn1667
bedecked1671
gayed1671
fancied1688
phalerate1702
decorated1727
ornamented1730
orné1763
got-up1793
gotten-up1796
apparelled1821
engrailed1848
?a1500 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 4 See that you fourth bringe In well decked order, that worthie storie Of Balaam and his asse.
1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) 16 The decked wode seak not whan thou violetz gather.
1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea x. 430 The well-decked and well-plenished dwellings.
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b. Heraldry. Applied to an eagle or other bird when the edges of the feathers are of a different tincture. (In modern dictionaries.)
2. Having a deck, or decks (as in two-decked).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > having deck(s)
covereda1656
decked1788
1788 A. Young Jrnl. 18 Aug. in Trav. France (1792) i. 78 By the passage-packet, a decked vessel, to Honfleur.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. iii. 24 On board of a two-decked ship.
1879 S. H. Butcher & A. Lang tr. Homer Odyssey 28 Such tackling as decked ships carry.
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adj.?a1500