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bedight
[ bih-dahyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to deck out; array.
bedight
/ bɪˈdaɪt /
verb
- tr to array or adorn
adjective
- past participle of the verb adorned or bedecked
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of bedight1
Example Sentences
Where others beheld the glorious virgin, Dulcinea del Toboso, radiant in beauty and bedight with queenly apparel, I saw only the homely milkmaid, with her red elbows and her russet gown.
The trees with silvery rime bedight Their branches bare.
The little lad, radiant with pride, the huge bay horse, lean and gaunt and hairy, bedight as never was horse before.
The prosecutor, with his head conspicuously bedight with sticking-plaster, puffed and grunted up into the witness-box, kissed the book, and was a 'retired commission agent.'
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theater, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres.
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