belted

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛltɪd/

Verb

belted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of belt

Adjective

belted (not comparable)

  1. (of a garment) Fitted with a belt.
    • 1952, “The Way Things Are,” Time, 7 April, 1952,
      Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: “A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back...”
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 6,
      She was a doctor's receptionist, and wore a blouse and skirt under her belted mac.
  2. Wearing a belt.
    • 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry),”
      How the bayonets gleamed and glistened, as we looked far down, and listened
      To the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers!
  3. (of animals etc.) Characterized by a white band around the body.
    Belted Dutch cattle
    Belted Galloway
    the belted kingfisher

Derived terms
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