Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Adorned with fretwork.
  • In heraldry, covered with a grating composed of narrow pieces, as bendlets, fillets, etc., crossing one another and interlacing. Also fretté.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Adorned with fretwork.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective heraldry Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.
  • adjective Peevish, inclined to fret, agitated, worrying.
  • adjective colloquial Inflamed, like a sore.

Etymologies

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From fret (from Old French frette, frete 'lattice, trellis', probably from Frankish *fetur) + -ty (a form of -y).

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from to fret 'eat/wear away, irritate' (from Old English ) + -ty (a form of -y)

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  • The definitions make me think of the interlaced upper crust of a pie, or those cheap panels of skirting that grace the bottom of mobile homes. I prefer the former.

    October 5, 2011