Meaning of be-piped | Babel Free

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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