Lexic.us

Definition of Slashed

1. Adjective. Patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes. "Brown iris...slashed with yellow"

2. Adjective. Having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric. "Slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining"

3. Adjective. (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply. "The slashed prices attracted buyers"

Definition of Slashed

1. a. Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture.

Definition of Slashed

1. Adjective. Having been slashed, cut or rent. ¹

2. Verb. (past of slash) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slashed

1. slash [v] - See also: slash

Medical Definition of Slashed

1. 1. Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture. "A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves." (Sir W. Scott) 2. Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slashed

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Literary usage of Slashed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders by Walter Scott (1878)
"... slashed with cloth of gold. By his side stood the seeming Ethiopian slave, holding the noble dog in a leash, such as was used in wood-craft. ..."

2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... for his body was found with one of his hands almost cut off, his head slashed in several places, his skull cut ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... accompanying nether habiliments, and on no account to allow them to exhibit themselves in togas, or in slashed jerkins ' with the sleeves curiously cut. ..."

4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"Blue dress, slashed with white, crimson velvet cloak laced with gold. ... Blue satin dress, slashed with white; laced the same as the peers. ..."

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