beflapped

adj 2

Definitions

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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