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Definition of Clipped
1. Adjective. Cut or trimmed by clipping. "A clipped poodle"
2. Adjective. (of speech) having quick short sounds. "A clipped upper-class accent"
Definition of Clipped
1. Verb. (past of clip) ¹
2. Adjective. Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back. ¹
3. Adjective. Of speech, with each word pronounced separately and distinctly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clipped
1. clip [v] - See also: clip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clipped
Literary usage of Clipped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and its Dependencies: From the by Robers Ruding (1840)
"That the loss of such clipped money as is silver [* and coined at the lawful ...
That a day, or days, be appointed, after which no money clipped within the ..."
2. The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes by John Locke (1824)
"A clipped half-crown that goes at the exchequer, will not be refused by any one,
who has hopes by his own or others hands to convey it thither, and who, ..."
3. A Year Among the Trees: Or, The Woods and By-ways of New England by Wilson Flagg (1881)
"clipped HEDGE-ROWS. No art connected with gardening has been so generally ...
I cannot see why those persons who admire a clipped hedge-row should object to ..."
4. Garden Design and Architects' Gardens: Two Reviews, Illustrated, to Show, by by William Robinson (1892)
"NATURE AND clipped YEWS The remarks quoted below on Nature and the clipping shears
are not from ... A clipped Yew tree is as much a part of Nature —that is, ..."
5. Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"clipped yews, lime hedges, and pollards, are, for the same reason, ... Certainly
clipped yews and lime hedges are disagreeable when out of place, ..."
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