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befringes

befringes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about befringes

What is befringes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Befringes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of befringe.

Words near befringes in the dictionary

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

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