overhung

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of overhang

adj

  1. Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
    [T]he former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay pestilentially unclean[.] 1830, Thomas Carlyle, “On History”, in Fraser's Magazine
  2. Suspended from above or from the top.
    an overhung door

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