ppl. a. [f. FLAKE sb.2 or v.1 + -ED1 or 2.] a. Arranged in or formed into flakes or layers. b. Marked with flakes or streaks.
1577. Harrison, England, III. viii. (1878), II. 31. It is not cloued as the lillie, nor flaked as the scallion.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 107. Chimney-pieces of Egyptian, or black fleak’d Marble, or of Rance.
1849. Florist, 261. A bizarre Carnation, one which has two colours besides the ground, is considered to belong to a higher class than the simpler flaked kinds.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 112. Above lay a sea of purest azure, flaked by fleecy opal-tinted vapours high in the empyrean and catching the glances of an unrisen sun.
1860. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. VI. ix. § 1. 80. The conditions which produce the spire of the cypress, and flaked breadth of the cedar, the rounded head of the stone pine, and perfect pyramid of the black spruce, are far more distinct, and would require more accurate and curious diagrams to illustrate them, than the graceful, but in some degree monotonous branching of leaf-builders.
1888. Wine, Spirit & Beer, 8 March. Advt., Flaked rice malts.
