Usually means: Washed with forceful, sweeping movement.
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  1. swashed: Merriam-Webster
  2. swashed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. swashed: Vocabulary.com
  4. swashed: Wordnik
  5. swashed: Wiktionary
  6. swashed: Dictionary.com
  7. Swashed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Swashed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. swashed: FreeDictionary.org
  10. swashed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (swash)

noun:  The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
noun:  A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
noun:  A wet splashing sound.
noun:  A smooth stroke; a swish.
noun:  A swishing noise.
noun:  (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
noun:  A streak or patch.
noun:  (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
noun:  (obsolete) A blustering noise.
noun:  (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
noun:  (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
noun:  (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
verb:  (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
verb:  (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To swipe.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
verb:  To streak, to color in a swash.
adjective:  bold; dramatic.
adjective:  (typography) Having pronounced swashes.
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