ppl. a. [f. SPRIG sb.2 or v.2]
1. Adorned or ornamented with sprigs.
† a. Of feathers. (Cf. SPRIG sb.2 4). Obs.
1613. Chapman, Maske Inns Crt., A ij. On their heads high sprig’d-feathers, compast in Coronets, like the Virginian Princes they presented.
b. Of fabrics, etc.
Very common from c. 1750.
1701. Lond. Gaz., No. 3705/4. Two Pieces of white Sprigg’d India Satin.
1724. S. Sewall, Diary, 5 April. My Wife wore her new Gown of Sprig’d Persian.
1775. Pennsylv. Even. Post, 23 Dec., 592/2. A great variety of flowered, striped and sprigged muslin.
1815. Zeluca, III. 307. Beg to know if the rent in my sprigged dress is darned.
1874. Symonds, Sk. Italy & Greece (1898), I. xiv. 296. Her bridal dress of sprigged grey silk.
1888. Daily News, 5 Nov., 7/1. Silk sprigged nets continue to sell with some freedom.
2. Having the form of a sprig or sprigs; minutely branched.
1714. Gay, Sheph. Week, VI. 135. Sprigg’d Rosemary the Lads and Lasses bore.
1847. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VIII. II. 472. The [flax] stalk will abound in small branches, or become, as it is called, ‘sprigged.’
