ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Beyellowed

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /bɪˈjɛləʊd/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Beyellowed is an adjective meaning Covered or tinted with yellow colour.

Meaning

Covered or tinted with yellow colour.

Example Sentences

His tie, bought for him years before by Dollie, who had admired its 'angelic blue', was now so blotched and be-yellowed by spilt food, it was no colour at all.
And whistling, I gazed at the lovely “collected” maps and beyellowed documents, and arranged them in the compartments of my chest, carefully laying the button, wrapped in tissue paper, with the rest.
Now on my right there was nothing but marshes for miles, right away to Birchington in Thanet; and butter-cup-beyellowed marshes they were, dotted with sheep and threaded with innumerable waterways, and with, oh, such a big, big sky outstretched above them […]
The waggoner hearing this piteous appeal come out of the casier, jumped off the horse much frightened, and called the servants and his master, and they opened the casier, and found the poor prisoner all smeared and be-yellowed with eggs, cheese, milk, and more than a hundred other things, indeed it would have been hard to say which there was most of, — in such a pitiable condition was the poor lover.

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Related dictionary entries include yellowed, yellow, yellowy, yellowish, yellow-skinned, flavescent.

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