Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Beset with dangling things.

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Examples

  • The eloquence here was no doubt better than the argument, as Caldigate must have felt when he remembered how fond he had once been of that ‘bedangled woman.’

    John Caldigate 2004

  • The eloquence here was no doubt better than the argument, as Caldigate must have felt when he remembered how fond he had once been of that 'bedangled woman.'

    John Caldigate Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Lord love you, sir, when it was between our young missus, -- who'll excuse me for noticing these bright colours, and for saying how glad I am to see her come out once again as our squire's wife should come out, -- between her and that bedangled woman as I seed in the court, it didn't take no one long to know what was the truth! '

    John Caldigate Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Lord love you, sir, when it was between our young missus, — who’ll excuse me for noticing these bright colours, and for saying how glad I am to see her come out once again as our squire’s wife should come out, — between her and that bedangled woman as I seed in the court, it didn’t take no one long to know what was the truth!’

    John Caldigate 2004

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