belady

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English

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Etymology

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From be- +‎ lady.

Verb

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belady (third-person singular simple present beladies, present participle beladying, simple past and past participle beladied)

  1. To promote to the status of lady.
    • 1898, William O'Brien, A Queen of Men, page 19:
      We see those begraced and beladied in the Queen's name whom the Prophet doomed to be fried in the fire of the King of Babylon.
    • 1920, James F. Waight, Richard II, page 66:
      So they beladied me I was red hot with shame. But yesterday They did disdain only to bend their eyes Upon so low a girl.
    • 1916, Rovert Frost, In the Home Stretch:
      Never was I beladied so before. Would evidence of having been called lady More than so many times make me a lady In common law, I wonder.

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