[f. TRAIN sb.1 + -ED2.]
1. Having a train, as a robe; having a luminous train, as a meteor (quot. 1686).
1588. in Aston’s Manch. Guide (1804), 25. A traynd gowne lyned wyth chamlett.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, II. x. 291. Tayl’d and trayn’d Meteors.
1883. ‘Sylvia,’ Ladies’ Guide to Home Dressmaking & Millinery, xiii. 107 [List of under-linen]. 2 trained petticoats, [£]0 17 9.
1905. Daily Chron., 13 Nov., 8/1. The average middle-class English woman … should never be tempted to wear a trained skirt out of doors.
† 2. Attended by a train or retinue. Obs. rare–1.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 4. He sent him not roially trained and accompanied like an Embassador.
