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
Burton, "a mighty fine marriage-feast was dispread in the palace."
From Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp by Payne, John
Moreover, with amazement as great he saw the carpet dispread between palace and pavilion: like their lord also the royal door- keepers and the household, one and all, were dazed and amazed at the spectacle.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Had we known of thy coming we fain had dispread, i.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
But this thy host so wide dispread Wakes in my heart one doubt and dread, Lest, threatening Ráma good and great, Ill thoughts thy journey stimulate.”
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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