Bemedaled
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /bɪˈmɛdəld/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Bemedaled is an adjective meaning Having or wearing medals.
Meaning
Having or wearing medals.
Example Sentences
The bemedaled Marine refused to fall on his sword and take full blame for the scandal.
The luckier and less disabled ones manned lifts or were posted at the doors of public buildings, a uniformed and bemedalled conciergerie who were more often than not unhelpful, making the most of whatever petty authority they were invested with.
[…] there was to the ferocity of his eye, the splendour of his famous moustache, his immense bemedalled figure and his utterly humourless brand of imperialism—there was to Kitchener, though one might hardly dare say it to his face, something faintly absurd.
The evening had its glamorous elements, with elegantly dressed women and bemedaled and beribboned military officers circulating through the first-floor rooms; Barry, the postmaster general, and the only Eaton ally in the Cabinet except for Van Buren, called it “the most splendid entertainment I have been at in Washington.”
Word Forms
- bemedalled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include meedful, armoured, gildable, armigerous, adornable, calibred.
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