Definition of "figured"

It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 01

Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 446