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Carbuncled adj.

Set with carbuncles. "He has deserves it (armor), were it carbuncled Like holy Phabus' car."

Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched. "A carbuncled face."

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Etymology of 'Carbuncled'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Carbuncled" Quotes from Famous Books

... who has studied Paine's career can deny his honesty and his disinterestedness; and every unprejudiced reader of his works must admit not merely his great ability in urging his opinions, but that he sincerely believed all he wrote. Let us, then, try to forget the carbuncled nose, the snuffy waistcoat, the unorthodox sneer. We should wipe out his later years, cut his life short at 1796, and take Paine when he wrote "Common Sense," Paine when he lounged at the White Bear in Piccadilly, talking over with Horne Tooke the answer to Mr. Burke's "Reflections," and Paine, ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various

Words linked to "Carbuncled" : adorned, carbuncular