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beflag

American  
[bih-flag] / bɪˈflæg /

verb (used with object)

beflagged, beflagging
  1. to cover or deck with flags.


Etymology

Origin of beflag

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


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The lead jeep of the convoy stood on the edge of the clearing with all the beflagged trucks behind.

From Time Magazine Archive

The actual number of Parliamentarians gathered together in the specially beflagged city was about 400.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down the harbor boats were beflagged and the sirens made their music.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down beflagged streets jammed with half a million cheering Danes drove the sternly smiling monarch and the royal family.

From Time Magazine Archive

His first shock was when he was met at the station by the local band and conducted up the Station Road and down the beflagged High Street to the accompaniment of martial and patriotic strains.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917 by Various

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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