dispread
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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The little girl's face, "like peony dispread", seems almost rapacious.
From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2011
Shy dreams flit to and fro With shadowy hair dispread; With wistful eyes that glow, And silent robes that sweep.
From Ballads in Blue China by Lang, Andrew
She dispread the locks from her head one night, iii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
But old Bunyan's donkey is still browzing there, and yonder is old Bunyan's self—the brawny tramper dispread on the settle, retailing to the more clownish residents tap-room wit and roadside news.
From Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] by Hamilton, James
He did as he was bidden and the witnesses bore testimony thereto and to the dowry being duly paid; and the tie was formally tied and the wedding banquets were dispread.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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