mailed
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From mail (“send by post”).
Verb[edit]
mailed
- simple past and past participle of mail
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English mayled; equivalent to mail (“chainmail; spot on a bird's feather”) + -ed.
Adjective[edit]
mailed (comparative more mailed, superlative most mailed)
- Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.
- 1843, Charles Knight, London, volumes 5-6, page 38:
- [I]n the niches, instead of the effigies of mailed warriors, stood stuffed-out dresses, such as are worn by the fashionables of the day.
- (rare) Resembling the scales of armor.
- 1888, Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies, page 169:
- […] from blossom of lime to perfumed bloom of acacia — darts the humming-bird, his coat of mailed feathers glowing like a gem.
Verb[edit]
mailed
- simple past and past participle of mail
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Middle English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
mailed
- Alternative form of mayled
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