Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Ornamented with a medallion or medallions.

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Examples

  • Flopping back to the mattress, she blew an errant curl out of her eyes and glared up at the medallioned ceiling.

    The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010

  • When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cats paw: the rich dark smell of earth and the stronger, soapy scent of night-blooming flowersmoonflowers, white angels trumpet, four-oclocksand some she didnt recognize, like a plant bearing a star-shaped yellow blossom whose petals were medallioned with golden pollen.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cats paw: the rich dark smell of earth and the stronger, soapy scent of night-blooming flowersmoonflowers, white angels trumpet, four-oclocksand some she didnt recognize, like a plant bearing a star-shaped yellow blossom whose petals were medallioned with golden pollen.

    The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007

  • Canal incrusted with flashing sapphires, would have become worthy of those medallioned scrolls and historic bibles which the collector never opens in order to read the text but only to be again enchanted by the colours with which some competitor of

    Time Regained 2003

  • They came with their checkbooks and their credit cards and their cash, to carry away the Oriental rugs—the Kirman with the medallioned portraits of one hundred and one kings of Persia, and the Qum silk carpet, red and blue intertwined on a field of ivory—and the fine furnishings.

    Carolina Mist Mariah Stewart 1996

  • They came with their checkbooks and their credit cards and their cash, to carry away the Oriental rugs—the Kirman with the medallioned portraits of one hundred and one kings of Persia, and the Qum silk carpet, red and blue intertwined on a field of ivory—and the fine furnishings.

    Carolina Mist Mariah Stewart 1996

  • They came with their checkbooks and their credit cards and their cash, to carry away the Oriental rugs—the Kirman with the medallioned portraits of one hundred and one kings of Persia, and the Qum silk carpet, red and blue intertwined on a field of ivory—and the fine furnishings.

    Carolina Mist Mariah Stewart 1996

  • As they watched, Emily stood on tiptoe to run her curious fingers over the medallioned wall.

    Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993

  • Her steely fagade was cracking just like the paint on the medallioned ceiling.

    Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993

  • Wolf and Bobby took one of the unmarked Werewolf cars, a medallioned yellow cab, its top spray-painted with infra-red dye that could be tracked by a helicopter.

    Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

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