Definition of "dyed"

dyed

/daɪd/

verb
1. simple past and past participle of dye
adjective
comparative more dyed, superlative most dyed
1. Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.
  Quotations
  Gon. That our Garments being (as they were) drencht in the Sea, hold notwithſtanding their freſhneſſe and gloſſes, being rather new dy'de then ſtain'd with ſalte water.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i], page 6
  Girded with girdles vpon their loynes, exceeding in dyed attire vpon their heads, all of them princes to looke to, after the maner of the Babylonians of Caldea, the land of their natiuitie:
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Ezekiel 23:15

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