Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of besashed.
It’s about the fifth-most important beauty pageant in the country, my be-sashed seatmate informs me.
2006 March 25, Jojo Robles, “Filipino Geishas”, in Pacific Daily News, volume 37, number 52, Hagåtña, Guam, page 14, column 32 more examples
The gains are great—yet I still remember with delight and awe the shouts of “Wonderful! Counsellor!” from the huge, sweating enthusiastic, be-sashed mass of humanity that made up the Royal Choral Society of my youth, and will be desolate if I never hear again Mozart’s strange and wonderful (though dramatically inappropriate) counterpoints to “The people that walked in darkness.”
1974 December 5, Hugo Cole, “Handel without bars: Hugo Cole on tonight’s DIY Messiah”, in The Guardian, page 10, column 6Just how badly do you want your Thin Mints? Because if you think some little girl in green — pigtailed, bereted and be-sashed — is going to deliver them to your front door, you may be in for a very long wait.
1996 February 6, Kim Franke-Folstad, “Cookies from cyberspace: Girl Scouts turn to ’net sales for fun, profit”, in The Tennessean, volume 92, number 37, Nashville, Tenn., page 1D
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