beflag

American  

[bih-flag] / bɪˈflæg /

verb (used with object)

beflagged, beflagging

1. to cover or deck with flags.

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Etymology

Origin of beflag

First recorded in 1880–85; be- + flag ¹

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Example Sentences

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beflagged beflagging

Under the green-decked, beflagged arch of the station entrance, down oak-garlanded stairs lined with Elite Guard troopers, he marched, smiled and saluted acknowledgment to straining thousands in the streets.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was little rejoicing on the gaily beflagged, sunshiny boulevards, but neither was there much demonstration.

From Time Magazine Archive

To superstitious seamen, a botched christening means bad luck, but Elizabeth Cole made a last-second pitch, the twelve-ounce bottle of California champagne shattered, and bubbles splashed satisfactorily over the Seawolf's beflagged bow.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

I arrived back at Cetinje on the evening of the 15th to find it beflagged and rows of tallow candles stuck along my bedroom window for the coming illuminations.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

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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