Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Set or adorned with pearls, or with anything resembling pearls.
- Resembling pearls.
- Having a border of or trimmed with pearl-edge.
- Blotched.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pearl .
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Examples
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Usually labelled pearled barley -- barley with part of its fibrous hull stripped away -- it's in your market along with the dried beans and grains.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Some Kind of Miracle Ellen Kanner 2010
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Usually labelled pearled barley -- barley with part of its fibrous hull stripped away -- it's in your market along with the dried beans and grains.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Some Kind of Miracle Ellen Kanner 2010
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Usually labelled pearled barley -- barley with part of its fibrous hull stripped away -- it's in your market along with the dried beans and grains.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Some Kind of Miracle Ellen Kanner 2010
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Usually labelled pearled barley -- barley with part of its fibrous hull stripped away -- it's in your market along with the dried beans and grains.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Some Kind of Miracle Ellen Kanner 2010
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When the hominy has had the hulls removed by a machine, it is called pearled hominy.
unknown title 2009
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When the hominy has had the hulls removed by a machine, it is called pearled hominy.
unknown title 2009
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When the hominy has had the hulls removed by a machine, it is called pearled hominy.
unknown title 2009
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The "pearled" as applied to the spider's thread gives an intimation of the effect produced by dew on the thread, but there is also the suggestion of tears upon the thread work woven by the hands of the girl.
Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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But the ornamental leafage is different from ordinary Brugeois, inasmuch as it is "pearled" along the central veins, and is not symmetrical.
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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Whole grains - These grains, such as pearled barley and oatmeal, are loaded with fiber, potassium, magnesium, chromium, omega-3 fatty acids and folate.
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