ppl. a. [f. WINDOW sb. + -ED2, partly after OF. fenestré.]
1. Furnished with or having windows. Also with prefixed word in comb.
c. 1483. Caxton, Dialogues, 6. The hous well ordeyned Ought to be well wyndowed Of diverse wyndowes.
1611. Cotgr., Fenestré, windowed, hauing windowes.
1624. Wotton, Archit., 76. The whole Roome was windowed round about.
1636. Peacham, Coach & Sedan, A iv b. Windowed before and behind with Isen-glasse.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 276, ¶ 3. A strange windowed House,… which is so built that no one can look out of any of the Apartments.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVIII. 869/1. Some of the principal buildings we may reasonably suppose to have been windowed in a superior manner.
1816. Byron, Ch. Har., III. xxiii. Within a window’d niche of that high hall.
1819. Crabbe, T. of Hall, XVII. 131. She built a room all window’d to the west.
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, iii. Tall-windowed brick houses.
1881. World, 28 Dec. The disproportioned, ill-windowed, and pretentious palace at Kensington.
1883. Standard, 3 Aug., 5/7. The windowed side of the new building.
2. Having decorative openings (see WINDOW sb. 3).
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 366/1. A crowne of gold wyndowed.
1849. Rock, Ch. Fathers, II. 246. They had, like Chaucer’s layman parish-clerk, black windowed shoes, which let the scarlet stockings be seen from beneath.
1873. Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, 69. Palace-panes Pinholed athwart their windowed filagree By twinklings sobered from the sun outside.
3. Full of holes. (In later use echoing Shaks.)
1605. Shaks., Lear, III. iv. 31. Your lop’d, and window’d raggednesse.
1755. Hay, Epigr. Martial, III. xxxviii.
| In window’d hose, and garments twice convey’d, | |
| Our Ovids and our Virgils are array’d. |
1894. Westm. Gaz., 6 Oct., 2/1. When we sat with sadly windowed clothes on the not very extensive summit of the Crystallino.
