beflag

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ flag.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪˈflæɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /biˈflæɡ/, /bə-/
• Rhymes: -æɡ
• Hyphenation: be‧flag

Verb

beflag (third-person singular simple present beflags, present participle beflagging, simple past and past participle beflagged)

1. (transitive) To decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on.
   • 1949, Derek Kartun, chapter 9, in Tito’s Plot against Europe‎^[1], London: Lawrence & Wishart, page 62:

     Apart from the beflagging of streets and the organisation of processions and festivities, the idea was to make the security arrangements so prodigious and so inconvenient that the extreme importance of the Marshal’s person would be forcibly impressed upon the minds of the people of Budapest.

   • 1992, Jeff Torrington, chapter 14, in Swing Hammer Swing!‎^[2], New York: Harcourt Brace, page 124:

     What she was experiencing was an absence of sounds in general, not my own peculiar distinction of noises no longer heard: the screeching of pulley-wheels as rainyday washings rose to beflag the ceiling; the thump of doors closing […]