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beshawled

beshawled adjective: wearing a shawl.

Adjective

beshawled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a shawl.
    • In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In Quest of a Solution”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 41

Origin of beshawled

From be- + shawled.

Questions about beshawled

What does beshawled mean?
Beshawled means wearing a shawl.
What part of speech is beshawled?
Beshawled is an adjective.

Words near beshawled in the dictionary

  1. Beshara
  2. besharam
  3. beshare
  4. beshares
  5. besharp
  6. beshawled
  7. beshbarmak
  8. beshear
  9. beshearing
  10. beshears
  11. beshert

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