1. Ornamented or covered with enamel, or with a glossy coating resembling enamel. Enamelled board: cardboard with a glazed surface. Enamelled leather: a glazed leather used for boots, for parts of carriages, etc. Enamelled photograph: a photograph on metal or pottery, covered with a thin layer of enamel; also (in recent use) a photograph on paper, overlaid with a film of gelatine.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., III. ii. III. iii. (1651), 474. Inamelled jewels on their necks.
1740. Swift, Will, Wks. 1745, VIII. 384. The enamelled silver plates to distinguish bottles of wine by.
1864. S. Beeton, Dict. Univ. Inform., 712. Enamelled culinary utensils are now both cheap and common.
1879. J. J. Young, Ceram. Art, 39. Walls entirely cased with enamelled tiles of deep blue.
b. Phys. Of teeth, etc.: Having a coating of enamel. See ENAMEL sb. 3.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. p. lxviii. The enamelled scales of … Ganoidei.
1872. H. A. Nicholson, Palæont., 423. There are always two sets of enamelled teeth.
2. Having naturally a hard polished surface, resembling enamel.
1590. Shaks., Mid. N., II. i. 255. And there the snake throwes her enammel’d skinne. Ibid. (1591), Two Gent., II. vii. 28. He makes sweet musicke with th’enameld stones.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 101. Those [shells] … acquire a glazed or enamelled surface, like the cowries.
3. Beautified with various colors.
1613. Purchas, Pilgr., I. I. v. 20. Delighting themselves in the enamelled walkes.
1633. Milton, Arcades, 84. O’er the smooth enamelled green … Follow me.
1760. J. Scott, Elegy, Poet. Wks. (1786), 29. Blows not a flow’ret in th’ enamel’d vale.
1860. Whyte-Melville, Holmby House, 337. The enamelled meadows … of that fairyland.
† b. fig. Ornate. Obs.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, IV. i. 112. Inameld speakers … condemne others as barbarous and ignorant.
1656. S. Winter, Serm., Ep. Ded. I have not affected enamel’d phrases.
