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English
Etymology
gadroon + -ed
Pronunciation
Adjective
gadrooned (comparative more gadrooned, superlative most gadrooned)
- Adorned with gadroons.
1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:Do the Panthers like little Roquefort cheese morsels wrapped in crushed nuts this way, and asparagus tips in mayonnaise dabs, and meatballs petites au Coq Hardi, all of which are at this very moment being offered to them on gadrooned silver platters by maids in black uniforms with hand-ironed white aprons . . .
1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 11:arriving safely, forty minutes later, at the bourne of breakfast, the only breakfast worth the name, the cheminot’s breakfast, the great bowl of coffee laced and gadrooned and filigreed with rum.
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