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
"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 James Edward Parrott
Torn and stained and besprent with mud, his rawhide knee-boots sodden and oozing water, he stood glowering at Giles beneath the bloody clout that swathed his head, his brawny fist upon his dagger.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
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 George MacDonald
And so the wholesome green is all besprent With bile-disturbing mixture.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. by Various
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