a. [f. JASPER sb. or v. + -ED. Cf. F. jaspé, Sp. and Pg. jaspeado ‘speckled or colored like jasper.’] Marbled, speckled.
1620. Shelton, Quix., II. xxxii. 218. Don Quixote was not very well pleased to see him so ill dressed with his iasperd towell [la jaspeada toalla].
1730. Rutty, in Phil. Trans., XXXVI. 267. The second makes them of an Ash Colour and Marbled, or Iaspered.
1780. J. T. Dillon, Trav. Spain (1781), 304. A slaty stone, jaspered with blue and green.
