befringe
befringe verb: to furnish or adorn with a fringe.
Verb
befringe (third-person singular simple present befringes, present participle befringing, simple past and past participle befringed)
- To furnish or adorn with a fringe.
- [...] women themselves went in armour, (having a brave lasse like another Penthesilea for their leader, so befringed with gold, that they called her Golden-foot) riding astride like men [...]1639, Thomas Fuller, chapter 27, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, page 78
- And when I flatter, let my dirty leaves
(Like Journals, Odes, and such forgotten things
As Eusden, Philips, Settle, writ of Kings)
Cloath spice, line trunks, or flutt’ring in a row,
Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Sohoe.1737, Alexander Pope, The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated, London: T. Cooper, page 23
Forms of befringe
| third-person singular present | befringes |
|---|---|
| present participle | befringing |
| past participle | befringed |
| past | befringed |
Origin of befringe
From be- (“on, at, upon”) + fringe.
Words that rhyme with befringe
Questions about befringe
- What does befringe mean?
- Befringe means to furnish or adorn with a fringe.
- What part of speech is befringe?
- Befringe is a verb.
- What is the past tense of befringe?
- The past tense of befringe is befringed.
Words near befringe in the dictionary
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