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
Here is Ben Jonson: What beckoning ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
From Hearts of Controversy by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
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
His precious flanks with stars besprent, Worthy to swim in Castaly!
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
O Suns, O Rains, O Day and Night, O Chance, O Time besprent with seven-hued circumstance, I float above ye all into the trance That draws me nigh Nirvana.
From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney
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