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figured

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fig·ured  (fgyrd)
adj.
1. Shaped or fashioned in a particular way.
2. Decorated with a design; patterned: "My dress is richly figured" Amy Lowell.
3. Represented, as in graphic art or sculpture; depicted.
figured
Adjective
1. decorated with a design: a chair upholstered in figured velvet
2. Music ornamental
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Adj.1.figured - (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns; "my dress is richly figured"- Amy Lowell
patterned - having patterns (especially colorful patterns)
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Being therefore sold at auction,--alas I what a vicissitude for a chair that had figured in such high company
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
But with Ralph, if he broke away, she knew that it would be only to put himself under harsher constraint; she figured him toiling through sandy deserts under a tropical sun to find the source of some river or the haunt of some fly; she figured him living by the labor of his hands in some city slum, the victim of one of those terrible theories of right and wrong which were current at the time; she figured him prisoner for life in the house of a woman who had seduced him by her misfortunes.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
The whale himself has never figured in any grand imposing way.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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