beflag
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of beflag
Example Sentences
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Down beflagged streets jammed with half a million cheering Danes drove the sternly smiling monarch and the royal family.
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The populace gave them a tumultuous welcome as they passed along on their four-mile drive through the beflagged streets of Belfast.
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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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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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Villas and streets are still beflagged, and by this time we know every patriotic song in the "Vaterlandslieder" book by heart.
From A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes by Jephson, Harriet Julia Campbell, Lady
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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