spattedadj.
a. Provided with or wearing spats or short gaiters.
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1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby II. 184 Our three friends balmorally-booted or neatly spatted.
1894 H. Caine Manxman 136 One of his spatted feet was on the break.
b. Of an aircraft or its undercarriage: equipped with spats.
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1936 R. Brenard in J. Hammerton War in Air xix. 606 (caption) The latest version..has its three 350 h.p. Gnome-Rhone engines enclosed in low-drag cowlings and faired into a ‘spatted’ undercarriage.
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 61 If the wheels of a ‘spatted’ plane do not retract, it is said to have ‘permanent spats’.
1960 C. H. Gibbs-Smith Aeroplane i. xi. 78 This remarkable three-seater had fully cantilevered wings..and ‘spatted’ undercarriage.
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