a. Also 6–7 lillied, 7 lily’d. [f. LILY + -ED2.]
1. Resembling a lily in fairness of complexion.
1614. Sylvester, Bethulia’s Rescue, IV. 372. Her ruddy round Cheeks seem’d to be composed of Roses Lillied, or of Lillies Rosed.
1627–77. Feltham, Resolves, I. xxxvii. 62. The modest sweetness of a lilied face.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph. To my Jamie, The lily’d breasts with violets vein’d.
1761. Poetry, in Ann. Reg., 234. Did they … Wear ruffs too small … Or, over lilied, add a little rose.
1822. J. Wilson, Lights & Shadows Sc. Life, 4. When asleep, or in silent thought, she was like the fairest of all the lilied brood.
1840. Browning, Sordello, I. 266. Or just-tinged marble, like Eve’s lilied flesh.
2. Covered with or abounding with lilies.
a. 1633. Milton, Arcades, 97. Nymphs and Shepherds dance no more By sandy Ladons Lillied banks.
1744. Akenside, Pleas. Imag., II. 287. O’er the lilied vale Clearer than glass it flow’d.
a. 1803. Beattie, Ode to Peace, III. iii. Along the lilied lawn the nymphs advance.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., I. ix. 65. Its lilied pool and grassy acres specked with deer.
b. Bearing or embellished with the heraldic lilies or fleur-de-lis.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, VIII. 617. And plant the lilied flag Victorious on yon tower.
1814. S. Rogers, Jacquel., 88. The lilied banners streaming bright.
1814. Cary, Dante, Par., VI. 116. The fond belief, that heav’n Will truck its armour for his lilied shield.
1884. Gardiner, Hist. Eng., VII. lxx. 195. He hoped that the German princes and cities on the left bank of the Rhine—the Ecclesiastical Electorates especially—would take refuge from the storm of Protestant conquest beneath the lilied banner of France.
