bedrabble
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of bedrabble
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at be-, drabble
Example Sentences
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It had begun to drizzle, as it so often does during the winter in Northern France, and this man wore a bedrabbled cloak—a brigandish-looking cloak—over his blue smock.
From Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier by Alice B. Emerson
There, while the pilot rowed slowly to the Brannon shore, he stretched his sorry, bedrabbled figure—a figure in striking contrast to that of an hour before.
From The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates
A moment before the dingy bedrabbled snow at Cardono's feet had been puffed upwards in a white jet, yet he neither stopped for this nor took the least notice.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The tattered portières of the House of Casa-Evora, the bedrabbled robes of the marquisate, all that was ridiculous to her.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
They were all dressed most fantastically, and the child running in advance, an agile and bedrabbled looking little creature, was more in masquerade than the others.
From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Margaret Penrose
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