Meaning of be-piped | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“In the streets, also, the variety of dresses and costumes of the inhabitants of almost every city and country to Europe, who have⟳ come⟳ to do homage to the memory of the great maestro, adds to the peculiarity of the scene; and the flaunting lace caps of the women, the showy uniforms of the civil and military authorities, and the be-capped, be-piped, and be-ringletted Bürchen[-]classe who throng the streets, give⟳ the whole the appearance of a carnival on a grand scale.”

“From the fore-cabin window of the vessel, laden with a cargo supplied to Government contract, there peer the heads of quite a crowd of clerks, be-spectacled and be-piped, warranted to live⟳ on for ever on nothing a year.”

“The color drawing in question⟳ is a clever production by Harold Spain, one of the students, and in anticipation of a big sale, circulars with another drawing of a be-piped student were distributed about the building.”

“H’englishman, be-piped, spatted, to th’ bloomin’ h’airport.”

“That there is nothing new in pipe-smoking for women is made clear by the following article from the Weekly Scotsman, which gives this description of the be-piped harridans of the British Isles:[…]”

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