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befringed

befringed is the simple past and past participle of befringe.

Meaning of befringe

Verb

befringe (third-person singular simple present befringes, present participle befringing, simple past and past participle befringed)

  1. 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

Adjective

befringed (comparative more befringed, superlative most befringed)

  1. Having a fringe

Forms of befringed

comparativemore befringed
superlativemost befringed

Questions about befringed

What does befringed mean?
Befringed means having a fringe.
What is befringed the simple past and past participle of?
Befringed is the simple past and past participle of befringe.
What part of speech is befringed?
Befringed is an adjective.

Words near befringed in the dictionary

  1. befrill
  2. befrilled
  3. befrilling
  4. befrills
  5. befringe
  6. befringed
  7. befringes
  8. befringing
  9. befrocked
  10. befrogged
  11. befrost

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Adapted from Wiktionary: befringed (page history and authors); befringe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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