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Meanings of crested in English
(Of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination.
Synonyms
Examples for "plumed"
Examples for "plumed"
1
Their breaths plumed between them, neither willing to shatter the precious moment.
2
The family especially plumed themselves on the slow progress of the quilt.
3
The principal chief rode forward, bearing conspicuously the plumed calumet of peace.
4
You take it up and lay it aside with the plumed head-dress.
5
He was for the day of the plumed knight-notfor these times.
1
It consisted of straight trunks with tufted tops, in shape like parasols.
2
At the time of its release, most chairs had tufted, upholstered seats.
3
Carefully they explored the bushes, and surveyed each clump of tufted trees.
4
It lay leaden and dull, tufted with little white crests of foam.
5
He pointed at a tufted leather couch behind a leather-topped coffee table.
Usage of crested in English
1
Hathor crested a hill and saw a large group of Sumerians ahead.
2
The overwhelming sea ran in dark watery mountains crested with devilish fire.
3
For that split second, as I crested the fence, I was exposed.
4
Across the railroad embankment it chopped the inundation into small crested waves.
5
The servant entered, bringing a note gorgeously crested and coroneted in gold.
6
He crested the rise leading to the creek and scanned the bank.
7
The sea was getting up, and the waves were crested with foam.
8
Occasionally we caught the loud, querulous notes of the great crested flycatcher.
9
They crested the last remaining hill separating East Plains from Colorado Springs.
10
A score of crested savages with painted bodies sat on the ground.
11
Reinhardt crested a hilltop and descended quickly down into the river valley.
12
Once more the gray, unwavering line of silver-crested grass tufts was unbroken.
13
Frank held up the eagle-crested badge that Molly had painted for him.
14
It crested a spit of land that divided the bay into halves.
15
The deluge of praise at times crested into realms of questionable taste.
16
Like great, green, white-crested hills, the waves raced along the vast expanse.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Crested through the time
Crested across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common