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Woaden vs Woaded - What's the difference?

woaden | woaded |

As adjectives the difference between woaden and woaded

is that woaden is of or resembling the color of woad, bluish while woaded is coloured or stained with woad.

As a verb woaded is

past tense of woad.

woaden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or resembling the color of woad, bluish
    • No costly robes of woaden blue --Gilfillan

    Related terms

    * (l)

    woaded

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Coloured or stained with woad.
    • Man tattoed or woaded , winter-clad in skins. — Tennyson.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (woad)
  • * 1776 , Temple H. Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clarke, Dye'', entry in ''The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences , Volume 1, page 49 or 50,
    • The piece which has only been woaded' will be sound bluish, with somewhat of a dull green ; if it have been both '''woaded''' and maddered, it will be of a tan or minim colour; and if it have been neither ' woaded nor maddered, its colour will be dunni?h, between yellow and ?allow.
  • * 1968 , Eric Kerridge, The Agricultural Revolution , page 210,
    • The field was then laid to grass and after a dozen years could be woaded again.
    (Webster 1913)