Meaning of befringe | Babel Free

Definitions

To furnish or adorn with a fringe.

Examples

“[...] 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 [...]”

“And when I flatter, let⟳ my dirty leaves (Like⟳ Journals, Odes, and such forgotten things As Eusden, Philips, Settle⟳, writ of Kings) Cloath spice, line trunks, or flutt’ring in a row, Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Sohoe.”

“1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan: Cantos IX.—X.—XI., London: John Hunt, Canto 10, stanza 29, p. 32, … each dress he sported, Which set⟳ the beauty off in which he glowed, As purple clouds befringe the sun …”

“[…] during a year or more, Gentleman Brown’s ship was to be seen, for many days on end⟳, hovering off an islet befringed with green upon azure, with the dark dot of the mission-house on a white beach […]”

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