enamelled, enameled, ppl. a.
(ɛˈnæməld)
[f. enamel v. + -ed1.]
1. Ornamented or covered with enamel, or with a glossy coating resembling enamel. enamelled board: cardboard with a glazed surface. enamelled leather: a glazed leather used for boots, for parts of carriages, etc. enamelled photograph: a photograph on metal or pottery, covered with a thin layer of enamel; also (in 19th c. use) a photograph on paper, overlaid with a film of gelatine.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iii. iii. (1651) 474 Inamelled jewels on their necks. 1740 Swift Will Wks. 1745 VIII. 384 The enamelled silver plates to distinguish bottles of wine by. 1864 S. O. Beeton Dict. Univ. Inform. 712 Enamelled culinary utensils are now both cheap and common. 1879 J. J. Young Ceram. Art 39 Walls entirely cased with enamelled tiles of deep blue. |
b. Phys. Of teeth, etc.: Having a coating of enamel. See enamel n. 3.
| 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 68 The enamelled scales of Ganoidei. 1872 Nicholson Palæont. 423 There are always two sets of enamelled teeth. |
2. Having naturally a hard polished surface, resembling enamel.
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 255 And there the snake throwes her enammel'd skinne. 1591 ― Two Gent. ii. vii. 28 He makes sweet musicke with th' enameld stones. 1854 Woodward Mollusca (1856) 101 Those [shells] acquire a glazed or enamelled surface, like the couries. |
3. Beautified with various colours.
| 1613 Purchas Pilgr. I. i. v. 20 Delighting themselves in the enamelled walkes. 1633 Milton Arcades 84 O'er the smooth enamelled green..Follow me. 1760 J. Scott Elegy Poet. Wks. (1786) 29 Blows not a flow'ret in th' enamel'd vale. 1860 G. J. Whyte-Melville Holmby House 337 The enamelled meadows..of that fairyland. |
† b. fig. Ornate. Obs.
| 1604 T. Wright Passions iv. i. 112 Inameld speakers..condemned others as barbarous and ignorant. 1656 S. Winter Serm. Ep. Ded., I have not affected enamel'd phrases. |