Meaning of beplushed | Babel Free
Examples
“"What name⟳, sir?" said a member of the mighty beplushed.”
“"I'll wait⟳," Peter said, forcing himself to speak⟳ carelessly, and sought a beplushed seat that commanded a view⟳ of the entrance.”
“James says that he was at the time 'ignorant of what preceded' the instalment he had happened to pick⟳ up and 'was not to know⟳ till much later what followed'; and even his alert absorption of these isolated chapters proves compatible with his also having been pleasurably distracted by his Parisian surroundings, which he so well remembers that they have⟳ become⟳ for him a part of the novel's texture: 'present⟳ to me still is the act of standing there, before the fire, with my back against the low beplushed and beclocked French chimneypiece and taking in the tale of the current number⟳, taking it in with so surprised an interest⟳, and perhaps, as well, such a stir⟳ of faint foreknowledge, that the sunny little salon, the autumn day, the window ajar, and the cheerful clatter, outside, of the Rue Montaigne, are all now for me more or less in the story, and the story more or less in them'.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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