The word "winged" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that has wings, such as an animal or a mythical creature. For example: "The winged Pegasus soared through the sky, free and majestic."
She is 45m tall, winged, made of aluminium, and if you see her face close up – impossible unless you climb inside her, which I've done – she looks as if the Latin word misericordia (compassion) was invented for her.
Consider Piers Akerman's icky description of the winning yacht's famous winged keel in his cash-in book, The Cup Comes Down Under.
It requires a smaller and more flavourful bird than the winged sofa pillows we find shrink-wrapped and cowering in supermarket refrigerator cases.We ordered sautéed peashoots with garlic, out of guilt, mainly, they're green and healthy.
An endearing, small winged ox (Luke's symbol) watches from his perch on a curtain rod as Luke writes his text.
Allan Rock, the industry minister and another popular contender, has been winged by the scandal over the gun registry, which he launched when justice minister in 1995.
In 2000 he was approached by Burt Rutan, an aerospace engineer who was profiled in this column last year, with a design for a winged, carbon-fibre spacecraft.
It has generally caused little trouble this century because the main agent of transmission was a rather feeble insect, the blue-green sharpshooter, which cannot fly farther than three feet at a time.That changed with the arrival of its more robust, glassy-winged cousin, which lays eggs twice a year and can fly up to a quarter of a mile.
Glassy-winged sharpshooters fly far, but not high early experiments suggest that they rarely fly more than 16 feet above the ground.
Pigeon-winged books died on the ground, their pages lifting like feathers, until, at Fahrenheit 451, they burst into flame.
During the Kosovo war of 1999, the only aircraft that could drop JDAMs effectively was the B-2, the giant, bat-winged bomber which has to fly out from Missouri.
The most common bird-sound I used to hear was the clack of a handsome azure-winged magpie as it rummaged through my crab-apple tree.
