1. Of gems, etc.: Having, furnished with, or cut into facets. Also preceded by some qualifying word, as many-, keenly-faceted.
1859. Darwin, Orig. Spec., vii. (1873), 203. The falling of a facetted spheroid from one facet to another.
1874. Westropp, Precious Stones, 140. Amethyst … cushion-cut face; facetted back.
1890. Harper’s Mag., LXXXI., Oct., 799/2. Life is full of these noble instances; it is a many-faceted diamond of the purest lustre.
1890. Daily News, 27 Jan., 3/1. It’s [the electric light’s] power is enormously multiplied by the facetted lens.
fig. 1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1865), IV. XI. iii. 44. Friedrich … loves the sharp facetted cut of the man.
2. Anat. Provided with facets; see FACET sb.2 2.
1836. R. B. Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, I. 770/2. The most remarkable modification of facetted eyes.
1870. G. Rolleston, Forms of Animal Life, 22. An irregularly-shaped bony process … forms with this smooth facetted process a cup-shaped cavity.
