belted
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛltɪd/
Verb
belted
- simple past tense and past participle of belt
Adjective
belted (not comparable)
- (of a garment) Fitted with a belt.
- 1952, “The Way Things Are,” Time, 7 April, 1952,
- Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: “A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back...”
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:
- She was a doctor's receptionist, and wore a blouse and skirt under her belted mac.
- 1952, “The Way Things Are,” Time, 7 April, 1952,
- Wearing a belt.
- 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry),”
- How the bayonets gleamed and glistened, as we looked far down, and listened
- To the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers!
- 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry),”
- (of animals etc.) Characterized by a white band around the body.
- Belted Dutch cattle
- Belted Galloway
- the belted kingfisher
Derived terms
- belted earl
- belted kingfisher
- belted knight
- belted l
- belted magnum
- belted plaid