ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Behang

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Behang is a verb meaning (transitive) To hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape.

Meaning

(transitive) To hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape.

Example Sentences

And with rich clusters (hid among / The leaves) her temples I behung: […]
Moreover, when they have introduced the bride, they spread a fleece under her; and she, having brought in with her a distaff and a spindle, all behangs her husband's door with woollen yarn?
Now seven times had frosty-bearded Winter covered both herbs and flowers with snow, and behung the trees with crystal icicles, since the unfortunate St. George beheld the cheerful light of heaven, but lived obscure in a dismal dungeon, […]

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include hang, append, betassel, impend, depend, festoon.

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