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Belted   /bˈɛltəd/  /bˈɛltɪd/   Listen
adjective
Belted  adj.  
1.
Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.
2.
Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.
3.
Worn in, or suspended from, the belt. "Three men with belted brands."
Belted cattle, cattle originally from Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; called also blanketed cattle.





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"Belted" Quotes from Famous Books



... echoes of the vast mountains on both sides the loch, that perhaps there never was a more lively resemblance of thunder." This little fleet was joined in the evening by the enemy of the Macgregors, Sir Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss, followed by "fourty or fifty stately fellows, in their short hose and belted plaids, armed each of 'em with a well-fixed gun on his shoulder." At Luss a report prevailed that the Macgregors were reinforced by Macdonald of Glengarry, and had amounted to fifteen hundred strong: but this proved to be an idle rumour; ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume II. • Mrs. Thomson
... in ecstasy. Yet soon she saw, as the vast spheres swept by, Strange things within their belted orbs appear. 255 Like animated frenzies, dimly moved Shadows, and skeletons, and fiendly shapes, Thronging round human graves, and o'er the dead Sculpturing records for each memory In verse, such as malignant gods pronounce, ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man 's aboon his might: Guid faith, ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... belted guard was striding up the platform at the regulation official pace, and in the regulation official voice was saying ...
— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling
... tell him that from this time he is a belted knight. If he die, then he will appear before God as miles cinctus; if he live, then the rest will be accomplished in ...
— The Knights of the Cross • Henryk Sienkiewicz


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