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bepowder, v.|bɪˈpaʊdə(r)|
[f. be- 1 + powder v.]
trans. To powder over.
1583Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 100 Thee chase is ensued with passadge dustye bepowdred. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy 243 Bepowdering their wigs,—bepeppering their noses. 1879G. Macdonald P. Faber I. xvii. 227 The ashes of life's volcano are falling; they bepowder my hair.
Hence beˈpowdered ppl. a.
1742Fielding Lucy in Town Wks. 1784 III. 439 And is this bepowder'd, becurl'd, behoop'd madwoman my daughter? 1829Southey Epist. A. Cunningham, Armorial bearings and bepowdered pates! |