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beshawled

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Etymology

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From be- +‎ shawled.

Adjective

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beshawled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a shawl.
    • 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In Quest of a Solution”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 41:
      In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.
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