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beflapped
adj 2
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4ADJ.
all, fat, grimy, well-known
VERB + BEFLAPPED
flesh, squalling
BEFLAPPED + NOUN
linen, none
PREP.
with
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adj
1
Flogged, beaten, or bruised
We are cumbered his corpus for to carry, Many wights on him wonder and wary — Lo, his flesh all beflapped, that fat is.
adj
1
Having, equipped with, or abounding in flaps
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.
From the squalid backyard of poor London tenements, populous with squalling children and beflapped with grimy linen, to the stately quadrangles of college and mansion, the courtyard shows at a glance not only the social status of the establishment and the individual taste of its owner, but the characteristics of its owner's country.
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We are cumbered his corpus for to carry, Many wights on him wonder and wary — Lo, his flesh all beflapped, that fat is.
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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 ap
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From the squalid backyard of poor London tenements, populous with squalling children and beflapped with grimy linen, to the stately quadrangles of college and mansion, the courtyard shows at a glance
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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
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