Meanings
adjectivebefanned (not comparable)
- not comparableFanned; having air blown upon it.
Befanned with sunniest winds, the air swims visible in bright halo there
- not comparableEquipped with a fan.
A rigid old maid of pinched and nipped appearance, but patched and beribboned and befanned, as though in the desperate hope that some beau who had been on the royster all night would suddenly repent and offer her his hand and heart, is going to matins […]
1866, George Augustus Sala, William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher: Essays..., page 254
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