beflag
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of beflag
Example Sentences
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Down the harbor boats were beflagged and the sirens made their music.
From Time Magazine Archive
The actual number of Parliamentarians gathered together in the specially beflagged city was about 400.
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There was little rejoicing on the gaily beflagged, sunshiny boulevards, but neither was there much demonstration.
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A long file of big beflagged cars moved slowly through the surrounding palm-shaded park, bringing more conferees to the red-carpeted entrance.
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Bernt Jorgensen had come down himself to the waterside on seeing the vessel so beflagged, as it had not been since the day of his own wedding, thirty years before.
From Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport by Nilsen, Anthon Bernhard Elias
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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