Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Furnished or adorned with galloon.

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  • adjective Furnished or adorned with galloon.

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  • adjective Furnished or adorned with galloon.

Etymologies

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galloon +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Hartley looked in the same direction with the two who were speaking, and his eye was caught by a Semiramis-looking person, of unusual stature and amplitude, arrayed in a sort of riding-habit, but so formed, and so looped and gallooned with lace, as made it resemble the upper tunic of a native chief.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • It is made of daguerreotypes blurring on their misted silver; tenebrous lithographs -- solemn façades of brick with classic white lanterns lifted against the inky smoke of a burning city; the pages of a lady's book, elegant engravings of hooped and gallooned females; and the scent of crumbled flowers.

    The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Hardly a woman's room, and yet feminine in its minor touches; the gallooned red velvet cushions of the Venetian armchair; the violets that from every available place shed their fresh perfume on the quiet air, a summer window box crowded with hyacinths, the wicker basket, home of a languishing Pekinese spaniel, tucked under one corner of the table.

    Out of the Ashes Ethel Watts Mumford 1909

  • Garden, as doth the scarf of striped gauze and the shoes, gallooned with silver.

    Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

  • Trousers, which had been wavering between nautical buttons and gallooned knees -- or, in the vernacular of the period, a sail three sheets in the wind and a flag at half-mast -- were the items sacrificed.

    The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880

  • Indeed, an enormous bureaucracy, richly gallooned and well fed is that "idee Napoleonienne" that above all others suits the requirements of the second Bonaparte.

    Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850

  • A crowd of fellows, of the best among whom all that can be said is that one knows not whence he comes -- a noisy, restless "Boheme," greedy after plunder, that crawls about in gallooned frocks with the same grotesque dignity as Soulonque's [#12 Soulonque was the negro Emperor of the short-lived negro Empire of Hayti.]

    Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850

  • Hartley looked in the same direction with the two who were speaking, and his eye was caught by a Semiramis-looking person, of unusual stature and amplitude, arrayed in a sort of riding-habit, but so formed, and so looped and gallooned with lace, as made it resemble the upper tunic of a native chief.

    The Surgeon's Daughter Walter Scott 1801

  • Reminiscences: "I remember Mozart well at the first general rehearsal, in a red furred coat and a gallooned hat, standing on the stage and giving the tempi.

    The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

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