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bandannaed

bandannaed

7.1
Wearing a bandanna on the head or neck
  • adjective
  • /bænˈdænəd/
  • UK
translation icon : con pañuelo
  • The children wore bandannaed masks during the parade to celebrate the festival.

Examples

  • Wiesel attended the opening of the conference and addressed the audience composed of hundreds of ministers and activists, as well as sixty or so bandannaed refugees seeking to protect their identity from the media.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Something about the adults' obsessive weighing and measuring and projecting, this special calculus of thrust and growth, leaked inside us children's capped and bandannaed little heads out on the fields, diamonds, and courts of our special interests.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • He looked stylish in his bandannaed outfit while riding his bike.

  • At the beach, the group of friends all sported bandannaed hats to shield themselves from the sun.

How Decorated

ornate
  • Literature
26 7.0
bandannaed
  • UK
7.1
decorated
2.7
plain
50 2.5

Surface Forms

bandannaed positive

Morphology

bandannaed = bandanna (transparent) = bandanna + ed

Clear and productive formation: the adjective denotes 'wearing or decorated with a bandanna' formed by adding '-ed' to the noun 'bandanna'.

Etymology

Bandannaed comes from bandanna, which comes from a Hindi word bandhna meaning 'to tie'. A bandanna is a square cloth you tie around your head or neck, so bandannaed simply means 'wearing a tied cloth' or 'wearing a bandanna'.