oysteredadj.
/ˈɔɪstəd/, U.S. /ˈɔɪstərd/ rare.
1. Served or eaten with oysters.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > [adjective] > accompanied by specific food
printanier1793
truffled1820
Parmentier1875
oystered1885
à la mode1893
1885 Harper's Mag. Dec. 162/2 The preposterous excess of..beef à la mode and boiled chickens ‘oystered’, and jellied venison [etc.].
1932 D. Thomas Let. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 4 Oh, woe..unto Mumbles and the oystered beer.
2. Of a veneer: having an oyster-shaped or whorled pattern (cf. oyster veneer n. at oyster n. and adj. Compounds 3).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [adjective] > veneered > specific type
oystered1914
oyster1953
teak-veneered1970
1914 H. D. Eberlein & A. McClure Pract. Bk. Period Furnit. ii. 57 The middle or end of the Carolean epoch when the whorled or ‘oystered’ veneer made from the transverse slices of small boughs came into vogue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1885