Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of be-toppered.
The betoppered “bottle-necker” shelters from the wrath of the Mexican Chief.
1930 August 1, “Private Flying and Club News”, in Flight, number 1127 (volume XXII, issue 31), number 31, page 8642 more examples
This might seem heretical, for discount houses, with their silk-betoppered representatives and their excellent lunches might appear the very core of the City.
1981 October 22, “Are the discount houses clever enough to survive in a gyrating money market?”, in Hamish McRae, editor, The Guardian, London, page 18Among the many veiled or black-betoppered faces registering distaste in his direction, Watson was surprised to see a good many Chinamen.
1984, William Rushton, “The Plot Thickens at Number Ten”, in W.G. Grace’s Last Case or The War of the Worlds - Part Two, Methuen, published 1985, →ISBN, page 173
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