different between gadrooned vs gadroon

English

Etymology

gadroon +? -ed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?u?nd/

Adjective

gadrooned (comparative more gadrooned, superlative most gadrooned)

1. Adorned with gadroons.
   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, p. 11:

     arriving safely, forty minutes later, at the bourne of breakfast, the only breakfast worth the name, the cheminot’s breakfast, the great bowl of coffee laced and gadrooned and filigreed with rum.

Anagrams

• dragooned

English

Etymology

From French godron, from Middle French goderon, from a form of godet (“vase with wavy edges”) + -(e)ron, from Dutch kodde (“piece of cylindrical wood”). Also probably related to goder (“to pucker”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?u?n/

Noun

gadroon (plural gadroons)

1. Any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc.
2. A godroon.

Related terms

• gadrooned

Translations

References

• “gadroon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dragoon