beflag
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of beflag
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Down beflagged streets jammed with half a million cheering Danes drove the sternly smiling monarch and the royal family.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every Finnish hamlet was gaily festooned and beflagged.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lead jeep of the convoy stood on the edge of the clearing with all the beflagged trucks behind.
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Down the harbor boats were beflagged and the sirens made their music.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tall, slim minarets and beflagged temple-spires rise out of it and give it picturesqueness, viewed from the river.
From Following the Equator, Part 5 by Mark Twain
There is no escape therefore from this beflagging of a foreign holiday—and we set out with a homesick song of Nubia, which the boatmen sing to the cadence of the oars.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines
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