besprent
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of besprent
1325–75; Middle English bespre ( y ) nt, past participle of besprengen, Old English besprengan, equivalent to be- be- + sprengan to sprinkle, akin to spring
Example Sentences
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All is furnished – or "besprent" as the dire cod-Elizabethiana text by William Plomer might have it – with bright, toy colours and visual wit.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
Torn and stained and besprent with mud, his rawhide knee-boots sodden and oozing water, he stood glowering at Giles beneath the bloody clout that swathed his head, his brawny fist upon his dagger.
From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery
As he sat in the sunshine he glistened all over, like an Ethiop besprent with silver; for his dark limbs and mighty chest had been oiled, and then powdered with antimony.
From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary
O'er which the sea-mew swept, with dewy drops besprent.
From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne
The books at Saint-Cyr were stamped with a crowned cross, besprent with fleurs-de-lys.
From The Library by Lang, Andrew
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