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crested

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crest·ed  (krstd)
adj.
Having a crest: a crested black macaque.
A report that indicates that engagement of a target or observation of an area is not possible because of an obstacle or intervening crest.
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Adj.1.crested - bearing an heraldic device
heraldry - the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies
adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
2.crested - (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the headcrested - (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination; "golden crested"; "crested iris"; "crested oriole"; "tufted duck"; "tufted loosestrife"
topknotted, tufted
animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
3.crested - (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume
plumed
adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
Translations
crested [ˈkrestɪd] ADJ [bird etc] → crestado, con cresta; [notepaper] → con escudo
crested [ˈkrɛstɪd] adj
[bird] → huppé(e)
[china, writing paper] → armorié(e)
crested
adj notepaper, seal → verziert; (Orn) → Hauben-; crested coot → Kammblessralle f
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All the proud foliage Of the crested forests is shorn, and shrivels down Beneath the blade of ice.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comb-like incrustation on the top of the mass --this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the crown, and the Southern fishers the bonnet of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak, with a bird's nest in its crotch.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The moon, which had shone for a short time, disappeared behind the clouds; every object was again plunged in the obscurity that is so awful in the deserts and still more so in that liquid desert, the ocean, and nothing was heard save the whistling of the west wind driving along the tops of the crested billows.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
 
 
 
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