shadowed

[shad-ohd]

adjective

Printing.

1. noting or pertaining to an ornamented type in which the embellishment is outside the character, especially one in which a black line at one side and at the top or bottom gives the effect of a cast shadow.

Other Word Forms

• self-shadowed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of shadowed¹

1350–1400 in general sense; Middle English; shadow, -ed ²

Example Sentences

The gaps in implementation became glaring as the BBC shadowed Bihar officials in a misty October morning raid on bootleggers.

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“I know you by your face, Ashton! And by your companion. That cabin boy who shadowed your every step.”

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Head down, he scuttled away like a nervous crab and disappeared into the shadowed hall.

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The capital greets us not with wild crowds, but with shadowed buildings and the whir of taxis along San Jerónimo Street.

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This week Elon Musk suggested on X that quantum computing would run best on the "permanently shadowed craters of the moon".

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