be-booted

Instead the be-jeaned, be-booted and big-hatted group were dispatched to the less formal Empress room …

1996 June 20, Jim Gibson, “Saanich mayoral race could begin next week”, in Times Colonist, 138th year, number 185, Victoria, B.C., page B2, column 5

Picture a group of tired (owling starts about an hour before dawn and the last birds counted are gleaned from the merest traces of daylight), red-faced and pink-handed (worse when the count day is gray, snowy and the temperature is below freezing), be-booted and de-downed, (piles of hats, coats and gloves cover the beds in the makeshift cloakroom) men, women and children bunched together in a living room waiting to contribute their numbers to the total.

2000 January 6, Clellie Lynch, “Counting crows”, in The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass., page A7, column 3