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adjective

Belted adj.

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.

Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.

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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Etymology of 'Belted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Belted" Quotes from Famous Books

... morning he drew up by the roadside to listen to some lyrical robin on an apple-bough, or to make friends with the black- belted Durham cows and the cream-colored Alderneys, who came solemnly to the pasture wall and stared at him with big, good-natured faces. A row of them, with their lazy eyes and pink tongues and moist india-rubber noses, was as ...

— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... neatly dressed as the lad beside her was uncouth in his man-size overalls, her short corduroy skirt belted about with a broad leather clasped with a gleaming silver buckle, the tops of her tall laced boots lost beneath its hem. Her gray flannel waist was laced at the bosom like a cowboy's shirt, adorned at the collar with a flaming scarlet ...

— The Flockmaster of Poison Creek • George W. Ogden

... a child before it be so old as to wear belted truese, will not have the cunning to ...

— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop

... dim streams divide The tundras belted by the sky. How sweet in slim canoe to glide, And dream, and let the world go by! Build gay camp-fires on greening strand! In Muskrat Land, in ...

— Rhymes of a Rolling Stone • Robert W. Service

... in Assyria than any others. They were used by most of those who fought in chariots, by the early monarchs' personal attendants, by the cross-belted spear-men, and by many of the spearmen who guarded archers. In the most ancient times they seem to have been universally made of solid metal, and consequently they were small, perhaps not often exceeding two feet, or two feet and ...

— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria • George Rawlinson

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