gauntleted
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
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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.
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She wore a pair of gauntleted gloves to protect her hands while working with metal.
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The blacksmith wore gauntleted fingers to handle the hot iron safely.
Synonyms
gloved
vsgauntleted
4
3.0
Wearing gloves on the hands
refers to heavy sturdy protective hand covering often made from metal or leather
How Protected
Surface Forms
gauntleted positive
Morphology
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.