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belted
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛltɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛltɪd
Verb
belted
- simple past and past participle of belt
Adjective
belted (not comparable)
- (of a garment) Fitted with a belt.
- 1952 April 7, “The Way Things Are”, in Time:
- Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: “A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back...”
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
- She was a doctor's receptionist, and wore a blouse and skirt under her belted mac.
- 2025 February 21, Leah Dolan, “How the Superman ‘S’ became fashion’s favorite logo”, in CNN:
- And although we’ve certainly seen a variety of blue shades — from periwinkle to cobalt and even Dean Cain’s indigo-washed costume from the 1990’s TV show “Lois & Clark” — Superman’s uniform is still instantly recognizable across generations. In fact, there is only one film — Zack Snyder’s 2013 “Man of Steel” — in which Superman does not wear his iconic red belted trunks.
- Wearing a belt.
- 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry):
- How the bayonets gleamed and glistened, as we looked far down, and listened
To the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers!
- (of animals etc.) Characterized by a white band around the body.
- Belted Dutch cattle
- Belted Galloway
- the belted kingfisher
Derived terms
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