always store your finely edged knives in a knife block
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Then came a raw-edged denim skirt from Miaou, which was as thigh-grazing as that viral Miu Miu micro skirt from the spring 2022 collection.—Alice Cary, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2023 Pelé was the soccer’s straight-edged counter to Maradona, the outspoken cocaine addict who fraternized with Communist dictators.—Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022 For more than 10 months, the child’s journey followed the kind of dreary, double-edged protocol so familiar to cancer patients and their families.—Keith Epstein, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014 Leading without a baton, Luisi uses his hands to mold sounds alternately soft- and hard-edged, dark and dense or bright and shiny.—Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2022 See all Example Sentences for edged
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of edged was
before the 12th century
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