bedabble
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of bedabble
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Their very faces were bedabbled with black, and they left a black trail behind them on the grass.
From Three Margarets by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
From this black hour, this curse anointing hour, The currents of thy heart are all corrupt; The motions of thy thoughts are serpentine; And thy death-doing and bedabbled soul Is maculate with spots of Erebus.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
I saunter up the walks; My sandals wetted through With dripping flowers and stalks, That line the avenue; My broidered mantle all bedabbled with the dew!
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
There were no flowers to be seen but beaten-down Michaelmas daisies and bedabbled phlox.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton
There was a cut upon his forehead, and they had been wetting his hair, which lay bedabbled and entangled on the pillow.
From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles
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