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CORDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of textiles; having parallel raised lines
Synonyms:
corded; twilled
Classified under:
Similar:
rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb cord
Context examples:
A strangely opposed pair they appeared as they approached each other: Tranter dark and stout and stiff, with hairy chest and corded arms, Alleyne a model of comeliness and grace, with his golden hair and his skin as fair as a woman's.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I, at least, had nothing more to do: there were my trunks, packed, locked, corded, ranged in a row along the wall of my little chamber; to-morrow, at this time, they would be far on their road to London: and so should I (D.V.),—or rather, not I, but one Jane Rochester, a person whom as yet I knew not.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
