beflapped

comparative more beflapped · superlative most beflapped

1. archaicFlogged, beaten, or bruised

   We are cumbered his corpus for to carry, Many wights on him wonder and wary — Lo, his flesh all beflapped, that fat is.

   1999, Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays, page 208

comparative more beflapped · superlative most beflapped

1. Having, equipped with, or abounding in flaps

   Basque shirts, the striped boat-neck standby still affected by fishermen, are on view here, although the designers have made wild Gallic stabs at the Ivy League's buttondowns and multibuttoned and beflapped shirts of the American West.

   1964, Saturday Review, volume 47, page 28

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   After a little while the good lady turned out in her petticoat and stays, with a blanket over her shoulders, and a night-cap so beflapped and befrilled as gave the pitiful countenance within it the appearance of being decked out for a funeral.

   1821, The Privateer: A Tale, volume 1, page 20

   From the squalid backyard of poor London tenements, populous with squalling children and beflapped with grimy linen, to the stately quadrangles of college and mansion, the courtyard shows at a glance not only the social status of the establishment and the individual taste of its owner, but the characteristics of its owner's country.

   1882, Marion Harry Spiellmann, The Magazine of Art, volume 5, page 194

   In their places we find plain stoles (those of the Roman Church were decorated as are those of the Established Church to-day), the plain cassock, and the well-known beflapped cap, which, none the less, bears a slight resemblance to the Catholic biretta.

   1906, Richard Davey, The pageant of London, volume 2, page 79