beflag
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of beflag
Example Sentences
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The actual number of Parliamentarians gathered together in the specially beflagged city was about 400.
From Time Magazine Archive
The populace gave them a tumultuous welcome as they passed along on their four-mile drive through the beflagged streets of Belfast.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the long marble steps in front of Venice's railway station, little King Vittorio Emmanuele stepped into a gaily beflagged launch and chuffed off down the serpentine Grand Canal to the Palazzo Pesaro.
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Down the harbor boats were beflagged and the sirens made their music.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is it really in my honour that all these pretty boats have spread their wings and beflagged their masts?
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah
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 Baines, William Peter
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