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befringing

befringing is the present participle and gerund 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 befringing

What is befringing the present participle and gerund of?
Befringing is the present participle and gerund of befringe.

Words near befringing in the dictionary

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

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