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Displayed   /dɪsplˈeɪd/   Listen
adjective
Displayed  adj.  
1.
Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
2.
(Her.) With wings expanded; said of a bird of prey, esp. an eagle.
3.
(Print.) Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.





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"Displayed" Quotes from Famous Books



... The pilot's crew displayed no overdone affection for their craft, and there was no struggle to the last to leave it. One by one—whichever could grab the line first was the first to come—they were hauled through the thundering waves and their ...
— Told in the East • Talbot Mundy
... sort of farce for their own pleasure, to the great annoyance of the audience. I will give you a sample of it, so you can have an idea of the wit and good taste displayed by these gentlemen. The most intoxicated of the young men asked, between two yawns, who were the authors of Antigone? "Sophocles," said M. de Monbert. "But there are two, are there not?" "Two Antigones?" said the Prince laughing; "yes, there is Ballanche's." ...
— The Cross of Berny • Emile de Girardin
... years later he settled at the Lycee Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, chief town of the Puy de Dome department, whose name is more known to motorists than to philosophers. The year after his arrival at Clermont-Ferrand he displayed his ability in "the humanities" by the publication of an excellent edition of extracts from Lucretius, with a critical study of the text and the philosophy of the poet (1884), a work whose repeated editions are sufficient evidence of its useful place in the promotion ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn
... speculative securities had spoken of as another healthy breathing spell, the tendency of prices had changed. Had not merely halted, but showed a radical tendency to shrink; even to tumble feverishly. Buyers were scarce, and the once accommodating banks displayed a heartless disposition to scrutinize collateral and to ask embarrassing questions in regard to commercial paper. Rates of interest on loans were ruthlessly advanced, and additional security demanded. A pall of dejection hung over Benham. Evil days had come; days the fruit of a long period of ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... laughed (the king was too confirmed a joker to object to any one's laughing), and displayed a set of large, powerful, and very repulsive teeth. Moreover, he avowed his perfect willingness to swallow as much wine as desired. The monarch was pacified; and having drained another bumper with no very perceptible ill effect, Hop-Frog ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe


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