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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of belace.

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Examples

  • She even bought a foolish little beribboned and belaced nightgown.

    Of Course You Can Buy This - A Dress A Day 2010

  • E. L. Godkin, the editor of the Nation, might have been speaking for all of them when he lamented the “gaudy stream of bespangled, belaced and beruffled barbarians” flooding New York.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • E. L. Godkin, the editor of the Nation, might have been speaking for all of them when he lamented the “gaudy stream of bespangled, belaced and beruffled barbarians” flooding New York.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Don Pedro Gil: his progeny grew up a thriving and merry-hearted, though short and bandy-legged generation, while Senora Gil, befringed, belaced, and betasselled from her head to her heels, with glittering rings on every finger, became a model of slattern fashion and finery.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Don Pedro Gil: his progeny grew up a thriving and merry-hearted, though short and bandy-legged generation, while Senora Gil, befringed, belaced, and betasselled from her head to her heels, with glittering rings on every finger, became a model of slattern fashion and finery.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Whether one sorts soiled clothes in a laundry, or reclines on a chaise-longue with thirty-eight small hand-embroidered and belaced pillows and a pink satin covering, or sits in a library and fusses over Adam Smith, no one of the three is in a position to pass judgment on the satisfaction or lack of satisfaction of the other two.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • He wore a belaced purple coat; a crimson sash crossed his embroidered vest; a diamond flashed upon his finger.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • The young girl and Haviland, however, conveyed their charge carefully and safely to the farm-house, had him laid upon her own prettily-belaced bed, and Haviland insisted -- was it not a sacrifice in him on that critical evening of his election!

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • The baby at his christening is shown off in a splendid robe, very much belaced and embroidered, and it is to be feared that it is a day of disturbance for him.

    Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

  • Mark Antony and Coriolanus and Francis the First, the plumed barons of the feudal days, and their embroidered and belaced ladies, with the whole merrie companie of pages, fools, troubadours and heralds, seem on the whole to have had fine times of it.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

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