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gauntleted

gauntleted

1 9.9
Wearing a protective glove often made of metal or leather
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡɔːntləˌtɪd/
: con guante
  • Soldiers' speech, in Egyptian and Persian, and leather-gauntleted fists pulling me from beneath a sheaf of corpses.
  • gauntleted hand

Examples

  • Her gauntleted fingers punched the code onto the keypad.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The knight raised his gauntleted hand to shield his eyes from the sun.

  • She wore a pair of gauntleted gloves to protect her hands while working with metal.

  • The blacksmith wore gauntleted fingers to handle the hot iron safely.

Synonyms

gloved
vsgauntleted
20 3.0

Wearing gloves on the hands

refers to heavy sturdy protective hand covering often made from metal or leather

How Protected

armored
  • US
150 4.4
gauntleted
1 9.9
gloved
20 3.0
barehanded
2 3.7

Surface Forms

gauntleted positive

Morphology

gauntleted = gauntlet (transparent) = gauntlet + ed

Formed by adding the productive adjectival/past-participial suffix '-ed' to 'gauntlet', meaning 'wearing or equipped with a gauntlet'.

Etymology

Gauntleted comes from the old French gantelet, from gant meaning 'glove', and it originally named a small glove. So, if someone is gauntleted, they are wearing a protective glove, often a metal one like the gloves knights used.