sashed

English

Etymology

sash +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃt

Adjective

sashed (not comparable)

1. Fitted with a sash (window opener).
   • 1868, Thomas Richmond, The local records of Stockton and the neighbourhood:

     Seeing sashed windows in town, he got them into his own house.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd‎^[1], London: Constable & Co.:

     A skylight of moderate dimension was overhead and at each end of the oblong space were two sashed port-hole windows easily convertible back into embrasures for short carronades.

2. Having a sash (cloth decoration).
   • 1971, Chinua Achebe, “Public Execution in Pictures”, in Collected Poems, New York: Anchor, published 2004, page 53:

     […] Certainly / there was impressive swagger in that / ready, high-elbowed stance; belted / and sashed in threaded dragon teeth / they waited in self-imposed restraint— / fine ornament on power unassailable— / for their cue

   • 2000, Laurence Senelick, The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre:

     […] and even middle-class matrons serving in the Sanitary Commission adopted an 'army costume' of loose trousers covered by a sashed kilt and kirtle.

Synonyms

• besashed

Anagrams

• Shades, Sheads, dashes, sadhes, shades