beflag
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of beflag
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Ambassador to France Arthur K. Watson pulled up in his beflagged Cadillac outside the Chinese embassy at 11 Avenue George-V.
From Time Magazine Archive
These two towers were beflagged and illuminated and carried the limelight, and between and behind them was gathered a densely packed audience of forty or fifty thousand people.
From The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell
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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