profiledadj.

1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xiv. 23 The Profil'd Architrave, mark'd F.

1835 L. E. Landon Vow of Peacock 310 No profiled outline on the wall Seems like thy shadow now.

1897 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 1 511 Since the trunk faces at right angles to the plane of motion, the contradiction between it and the profiled arms and legs is very marked.

1919 Outing Mar. 297/3 Once you have had called to your attention this enormous profiled face turned up to the sky, you will always see and think of the resemblance.

1956 M. J. Friedlænder Early Netherlandish Painting 59 Bosch composes like a carver in relief or a medallist; his profiled figures are thin, almost transparent.

1999 E. Milanesi Carpet 21/1 The central element is usually a medallion—a large rosette shaped in the form of a circle, an ogive (a pointed, or Gothic, arch), a star or a sharply profiled polygon.

1999 U.S. News & World Rep. 15 Mar. 72/3 The American Civil Liberties Union and other grassroots groups, such as Citizens Opposing Profiled Police Stops.

1999 Harper's Mag. Dec. 57 The ‘war on drugs’..slipped the reins of metaphor to become just a plain old war—with an army (DEA), an enemy (profiled minorities, the poor, the cities), a budget ($17.8 billion), and a shibboleth (the children).

2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 Jan. 53/2 A new goal of building bridges with other profiled communities to educate the public and stand up to authorities.

2004 N.Y. Times 25 July ii. 20/5 The heroes share a jail call with a racially profiled African-American lawyer who serenely schools them in the hierarchies of American social justice.