Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of befruit
adjectivebefruited (comparative more befruited, superlative most befruited)
comparative more befruited · superlative most befruited
- Covered or adorned with fruit
On the floor was a tawdry carpet, all beflowered and befruited,—such a meretricious blur of colors as a hotel offers for vulgar feet to tread upon.
1892, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present
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