Meanings
adjectivebodkined (not comparable)
- not comparableFastened with a bodkin.
These maidens, with their golden-bodkined hair, were enchanted when they found that I had come from England; for at first they had taken me for a Frenchwoman.
1853, Chambers' Home Book, Or Pocket Miscellany1 more example
Dressed in their best quilted tunics and cloth pantaloons, with hair oiled, mounted and bodkined precisely as worn by their ancestors two thousand years ago, toes thrust in paper-soled blue slippers […]
1875, Woman's Work for Woman: A Union Magazine, volume 5, page 147
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