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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
leaded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
leaded lights
leaded petrol (=petrol that contains lead)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
petrol
▪ Volcanoes, cigarettes, forest fires, stubble burning, leaded petrol, combustion plants and incinerators are all contributors.
▪ As a first step, the sale of leaded petrol will be banned from January 1992.
▪ What is the situation with regard to leaded petrol?
▪ The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol.
▪ It will take many years to phase out existing cars that run on high octane leaded petrol.
window
▪ The turbine is sealed off behind a tasteful stained wood casing with leaded windows lit from behind.
▪ Fine woodwork, mirrors and leaded windows.
▪ The light inside was dull, diffused by the thick, leaded windows.
▪ I moved to the leaded window, looked out.
▪ Through the tall leaded windows the bright span of water flittered and shone.
▪ Nicandra knew her way through the tiny, bright garden to the leaded window of that back room.
▪ More short-haired young men gaze through leaded windows or carry burdens across alienating landscapes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leaded

Leaded \Lead"ed\, a.

  1. Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.

  2. (Print.) Separated by leads, as the lines of a page.

Leaded

Lead \Lead\ (l[e^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Leading.]

  1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.

  2. (Print.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.

Wiktionary
leaded
  1. 1 Held on place by strips of lead. 2 Containing or treated with the element lead. 3 Containing tetraethyllead v

  2. (en-past of: lead)

WordNet
leaded
  1. adj. (of panes of glass) fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead; "leaded windowpanes"

  2. treated or mixed with lead; "leaded gasoline"; "leaded zinc" [ant: unleaded]

  3. having thin strips of lead between the lines of type

Usage examples of "leaded".

For myself--I was one of the tenants--I would far prefer living in a workhouse to inhabiting those low-pitched oak-panelled rooms, and I would sooner look from my garret windows on to the squalor and grime of Whitechapel than from the diamond-shaped and leaded panes of the Manor of Trevor Major on to the boskage of its cool thickets, and the glimmering of its clear chalk streams where the quick trout glance among the waving water-weeds and over the chalk and gravel of its sliding rapids.

The windows which look into the garden, like those that look upon the court-yard, are mullioned in stone with hexagonal leaded panes, and are draped by curtains, with heavy valances and stout cords, of an ancient stuff of crimson silk with gold reflections, called in former days either brocatelle or small brocade.

On the far side of the court they found a rambling old house made of fieldstone, with delicate leaded windows and tiny little cupolas.

If the environment should happen to cross your mind while you are trying to decide between leaded, unleaded, diesel, or gasohol, severe legal penalties would ensue.

Her head was vividly defined among the flowers which poetized the brown and crumbling sills of her casement windows with their leaded panes.

She watched Yonnie lift the brass knocker on the heavy oak door that had tasteful panels of leaded, beveled glass, and announce his arrival by dropping it once, and then waiting for the door to eerily creak open on its own.

Its beams and pargetry were restored, the leaded windows good if you like that sort of fake.

Jacobean ceiling decorated with elaborate plasterwork, its tall leaded windows flanking the unique oriel window, and the carved fireplace of bleached oak.

The little shops, the wine shops with their bay windows of small leaded glass, and the crusty opulence of the bottles of old port and sherry and the burgundies, the mellow homely warmth and quietness of the interior, the tailor shops, the tobacco shops with their selected grades of fine tobacco stored in ancient crocks, the little bell that tinkled thinly as you went in from the street, the decorous, courteous, yet suavely good-natured proprietor behind the counter, who had the ruddy cheeks, the flowing brown moustache and the wing-collar of the shopkeeper of solid substance, and who would hold the crock below your nose to let you smell the moist fragrance of a rare tobacco before you bought, and would offer you one of his best cigarettes before you left--all of this gave somehow to the simplest acts of life and business a ritualistic warmth and sanctity, and made you feel wealthy and secure.

Through the leaded panes of the window above the writing-table swept a silvern beam of moonlight.

I think some embodiment--no, that word is a contradiction--some impalpable essence of Tragedy, some doomed soul whereof the head was bowed and the wings were leaded with a weight of ineffable and unrepented crime.

One of the men held the fray while Ramon beat him with the leaded buttstock of his wrist quirt.

Suddenly it was easy to see it as a long stem of some wandering rose, easy then to see it arching round a familiar doorway and small leaded windows Lionheart had once thought too small, and now she seemed to make out the two corner bushes, guarding the front face of the house.

Leaded windows, trained ivy like an artificial ageing process climbing wooden trelliswork around the front door, and cherry blossom trees waiting for the spring.

Embroidered waistcoats were worn over underwaistcoats, all topped by white leaded faces and high wigs loaded down with Venetian talc.