Crossword clues for crested
crested
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
decorated \decorated\ adj. having decorations. [Narrower terms: beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly; bedaubed; bespectacled, monocled, spectacled; braided; brocaded, embossed, raised; buttony; carbuncled; champleve, cloisonne, enameled; crested, plumed having a decorative plume); crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested; embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; encircled, ringed, wreathed; fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked out; feathery, feathered, plumy; frilled, frilly, ruffled; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid; inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; paneled, wainscoted; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled; tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out] Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.
Syn: adorned.
Wiktionary
Having a crest, or ornamental tuft (on an animal) or plume (on a helmet). v
(en-past of: crest)
WordNet
adj. bearing an heraldic device
(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" [syn: topknotted, tufted]
(of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume [syn: plumed]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
The Crested is a breed of domestic duck. It was probably brought to Europe from the East Indies by Dutch ships. It has its appearance because it is heterozygous for a genetic mutation causing a deformity of the skull.
Usage examples of "crested".
Faraday swung the binos in time to catch a blur of shadow as the military jet crested the distant swell of Portsdown Hill.
Or, if we turn northward, we only find it seaming another ample fold of bogland, outspread far and far beyond Lisconnel before a grey hill-range begins to rise in slow undulations, crested with furze and broom.
For what began with cat and mouse torments me today in the form of crested terns on ponds bordered with rushes.
The helmet crested in a spiked ridge, and beneath it lay a crisscrossing spiderweb of thin bones.
Crested heads capped in drifts, and cold eye sockets scalloped with crusts of rimed ice, the carvings aligned their uncanny awareness and sampled his stalking presence.
A man with a helmet crested entirely with snow-white feathers shoved her forward into the hands of his foremost soldiers, trying to move her toward a far archway that gave into a larger passage: their escape route.
Goodwife crested the mountain-top that cradled Fernbrake Lake, she turned and looked behind her.
The skirts, then, of these great ruffs are long and side every way, pleted and crested full curiously, God wot.
He tramped well off the trail and into the protection of trees just as the large yellow skidder crested the rocky knoll not twenty yards away.
The shuttle crested the south shoulder of Oakey Mountain and headed down Stillhouse Branch, accelerating past Mach Four and preparing for a hot inertial drop along Black Creek.
Sea-Priest surveys the hills to the left and to the right, all crested with sloping red sandstone.
They clung together through the aftershocks, gasping as the dance crested on and on in an unnameable timelessness.
The forest closed around them but still Camiron ran, leaping fallen trees and boulders, splashing across streams, until he crested a hill that led on to a small hollow circled by tall pines.
She recognized these warriors from tapestries and frescoes, with their hammered breastplates and crested helmets: the soldiers who carried the banner of the old Dariyan Empire.
He crested the hill and looked down on the wet rooftops of the town, the ashen carparks, the hideous plasticky shopping centre and the inhospitable moorland that butted against the new estate beyond.