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
A great light shone in the eyes of one maiden, who turned and walked slowly away, with her purple and white wings half dispread behind her.
From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by MacDonald, George
He replied, "Yes, by Him who raised the heavens and dispread the earth upon the waters, I will indeed keep faith and troth!"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Burton, "a mighty fine marriage-feast was dispread in the palace."
From Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp by Payne, John
Through tears I see the nodding head, The purple and the green dispread.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
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