Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a motto; bearing a motto: as, a mottoed scroll.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing or having a motto.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Bearing or having a
motto .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Packed with sugar-mottoed hearts and naked, pudgy cupids.
A Gothic Un-Valentine Stephanie 2008
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Packed with sugar-mottoed hearts and naked, pudgy cupids.
Archive 2008-02-01 Stephanie 2008
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She drew a red felt, yellow-mottoed cushion from beneath the deer-hide covering a chair, and held it up so that all might read.
Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans
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Escritoires were stocked with stationery suitable for the billet-doux that were sure to be required; and there, too, were the little boxes of glazed mottoed wafers, then all the fashion, with which to seal the pretty missives.
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Horace Walpole, at the beginning of his _Royal and Noble Authors_, has mottoed his book with the Cardinal's address to Ariosto, "Dove diavolo, Messer Ludovico, avete pigliato tante coglionerie?" [
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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