bedemoned

Almost at once that tawny bedemoned box began its career of naughtiness.

The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

“Wit was never my talent,” Anna Seward says, but she has recorded that when the “rulers of our Cathedral” decreed a four years’ silence for “the pealing organ and the full-voic’d choir,” because of alterations to be made there, she considered them “a little bedemoned, or much be-deaned — which is nearly the same thing.”

Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield Stapleton Martin 1884