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Definition of Fretted
1. Adjective. Having frets.
2. Adjective. Having a pattern of fretwork or latticework.
Definition of Fretted
1. p. p. & a. Rubbed or worn away; chafed.
2. p. p. & a. Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.
Definition of Fretted
1. Verb. (past of ''fret'') ¹
2. Adjective. (music) (''of a musical instrument'') Having frets. ¹
3. Adjective. decorated with fretwork ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fretted
1. fret [v] - See also: fret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fretted
Literary usage of Fretted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... noo His hands to heaven upraised; And all around, on scutcheon rich, And tablet
carved, and fretted niche, His arms and feats were blazed. ..."
2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"The indented shore gleamed, as if made of fretted ivory; and in the lambent haze
Malta, Gozo, and Comino looked no longer like material objects, ..."
3. Humorous Poems by Thomas Hood (1893)
"He fretted all the way to Stroud. ... He fretted all the way to Stroud, And thence
all back to town, ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1905)
"Northward and westward, to the silvered rim of the horizon, stretched the
Mediterranean's turquoise shield, its breeze-swept surface fretted into a maze of ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"fretted upland caned l>y mountain glaciers .'il>out King Oscar's Fjord, eastern
Greenland. The highest points are from 1.360 to 1570 meters above the sea ..."
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