Meanings
adjectiveherringboned (comparative more herringboned, superlative most herringboned)
comparative more herringboned · superlative most herringboned
- Having a herringbone (zigzag) pattern.
When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
1899, I[srael] Zangwill, “The Keeper of Conscience”, in “They that Walk in Darkness”: Ghetto Tragedies, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Jewish Publication Society of America, →OCLC, section VII, page 289
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of herringbone
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