belted

Etymology

verb

1. simple past and past participle of belt

adj

1. (of a garment) Fitted with a belt.
   Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: “A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back...” 7 April 1952, “The Way Things Are”, in Time
2. Wearing a belt.
   How the bayonets gleamed and glistened, as we looked far down, and listened To the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers! 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry)
3. (of animals etc.) Characterized by a white band around the body.
   Belted Dutch cattle
   Belted Galloway
   the belted kingfisher