Beflapped
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Beflapped is an adjective meaning Having, equipped with, or abounding in flaps.
Meaning
Having, equipped with, or abounding in flaps.
More Meanings
- (archaic) Flogged, beaten, or bruised
Example Sentences
We are cumbered his corpus for to carry, Many wights on him wonder and wary — Lo, his flesh all beflapped, that fat is.
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.
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.
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.
Related Words
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