be-togaed
be-togaed adjective: wearing a toga.
Adjective
be-togaed (not comparable)
- Wearing a toga.
- The visitor who sets foot within those precincts in which, year by year, colossal warriors jostle nymphs who, in their turn, leer at be-cloaked and be-togaed statesmen—under whose very eyes naked little Cupids sprawl and play antics that ought to put to the blush those respectable male and female...1856 June 7, “The Royal Academy Exhibition”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume II, number 32, London: John W. Parker and Son, pages 123–124
- Upon the fiftieth anniversary of his employment the Senate presented him a gold snuff-box, a senatorial institution, as may be gathered from the remarks of the old gentleman, who was abundant in anecdote of be[-]togaed snuff-takers.1882 March 26, St. Joseph Herald, volume XXVI, St. Joseph, Mo.
Examples of be-togaed in a sentence
- You can almost see some be-togaed pre-Buckley Roman sage wistfully urging the barbarians to practice their Latin paradigms aloud so as to keep the language alive.1995 March 2, Carroll Wilson, “Idea that computers will replace books dead wrong”, in Times Record News, volume 88, number 288, Wichita...
- (Somewhat bizarrely the recent statue of David Hume in Edinburgh’s High Street has him be-togaed in eighteenth-century fashion).2010, Bernard Crick, “Civic Republicanism and Citizenship: the Challenge for Today”, in Bernard Crick, Andrew Lockyer, editors, Active...
Synonyms of be-togaed
Forms of be-togaed
| alternative form | betoga-ed |
|---|---|
| alternative form | betogaed |
Origin of be-togaed
From be- + toga + -ed.
Questions about be-togaed
- What does be-togaed mean?
- Be-togaed means wearing a toga.
- How do you use be-togaed in a sentence?
- You can almost see some be-togaed pre-Buckley Roman sage wistfully urging the barbarians to practice their Latin paradigms aloud so as to keep the language alive.
- What part of speech is be-togaed?
- Be-togaed is an adjective.
Words near be-togaed in the dictionary
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