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English
Etymology
From necklace + -ed.
Adjective
necklaced (not comparable)
- Wearing a necklace.
1881, H W Lumsden, transl., Beowulf: An Old English Poem, Translated into Modern Rhymes, London: C Kegan Paul & Co., , page 20:To each she gave a goblet rich till by good hap at last / The necklaced queen with courtly grace before Beowulf trod, / Gave him the cup of mead and greeted him, with thanks to God / In seemly words that He had given her heart’s desire indeed / To find an earl whom she could trust to help them in their need.
1888, Frank H. Converse, The Island Treasure; or, Harry Darrel’s Fortunes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt, page 207:“Great chief—Powana. Him sleep! Bimeby wake,” grunted the necklaced gentleman, who seemed quite proud of his familiarity with the English tongue; […]
1993, Dagoberto Gilb, The Magic of Blood, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 199:Exotic colognes, plush, dark nightclubs, maitais and daquiris, necklaced ladies in satin gowns, misty and sexy like in a tequila ad.
Verb
necklaced
- simple past and past participle of necklace