besprent
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of besprent
1325–75; Middle English bespre ( y ) nt, past participle of besprengen, Old English besprengan, equivalent to be- be- + sprengan to sprinkle, akin to spring
Example Sentences
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All is furnished – or "besprent" as the dire cod-Elizabethiana text by William Plomer might have it – with bright, toy colours and visual wit.
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013
And he rode a great white mare, whose bases and other housings were black, but all besprent with fair lilys of silver sheen.
From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by MacDonald, George
As he sat in the sunshine he glistened all over, like an Ethiop besprent with silver; for his dark limbs and mighty chest had been oiled, and then powdered with antimony.
From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary
So in South Tredegar, besprent now before the wondering eyes of a Thomas Jefferson.
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
"Her cross of valour to her worthiest; No golden toy with milky pearls besprent, But simple bronze, and for a warrior's breast A fair, fit ornament."
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Parrott, James Edward
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