cataphracted

English

Etymology

From cataphract +‎ -ed.

Adjective

cataphracted (not comparable)

  1. Covered with, or wearing, a cataphract.
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 121:
      The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.

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