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Definition of "sprigged" [sprigged]

  • Simple past tense and past participle of sprig. (verb)

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Use "sprigged" in a sentence
  • "So a chair was placed in front of the green cupboard, and with precision in every movement the "sprigged" dishes were gotten down."
  • "Cicely, for all her thirteen years, looked very small, sitting there at the end of the long table, in her "sprigged" high-waisted gown, her feet in their strapped slippers perched on the rung of the high office stool."
  • "Men and women lounged everywhere, on everything: faded sprigged sofas and peeling painted chaise longues, spindly ladder-back chairs, stained window-seats, even on the rough plank trestle tables themselves."