puckered, ppl. a.
(ˈpʌkəd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Drawn into puckers, wrinkles, or folds, as the skin, or as cloth, purposely or unintentionally, in sewing.
| 1611 Cotgr., Renfrongné, furrowed, as an angrie brow; wrimpled, crumpled, puckered. 1755 Johnson, Ruff, a puckered linen ornament, formerly worn about the neck. 1796 A. C. Bower Diaries & Corr. (1903) 163 My leilack bonnet I have had altered..; it is now made in what they call a puckered bonnet. 1818 La Belle Assemblée XVII. No. 108. 87/1 Innumerable rows of puckered muslin. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 131 He heard the shipmen speaking low With anxious puckered brows. |