befringed
Example Sentences
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He looked at the lamp hanging from the ceiling, and noticed that the silken, befringed shade was rose-pink.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
Boldly going up to befeathered and befringed chieftains, he offered them knives, hatchets, or strings of silvery beads.
From The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey
It was as a boy that she treated me; but, on looking at that befringed young Spanish Don—who was not, apparently, my elder in age—she had recognised a man.
From John Bull on the Guadalquivir by Anthony Trollope
The "Girl Graduate," with a pathos to which I am not insensible, entreats me not to apotheosize "that awful, befringed, beflounced, and bekilted divided skirt."
From Shorter Prose Pieces by Oscar Wilde
The ‘Girl Graduate,’ with a pathos to which I am not insensible, entreats me not to apotheosise ‘that awful, befringed, beflounced, and bekilted divided skirt.’
From Miscellanies by Robert Ross
