Crined

/kraɪnd/ adjective

Definition

Having hair or a mane; characterized by or adorned with hair-like structures.

Etymology

Adjective formed from 'crine' (hair) with the suffix '-ed,' which creates adjectives meaning 'having' or 'characterized by.' Used in heraldry and poetic description.

Kelly Says

In heraldry, 'crined' describes animals, especially horses—'a horse crined gold' means a horse with a golden mane—showing how specialized vocabularies in specific fields (heraldry, poetry, botany) preserve archaic words that have disappeared from everyday speech.

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