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  • adjective Wearing mittens, or a mitten; mittened.

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Examples

  • Marguerite thought that the face seemed familiar to her, and she also noticed that the woman carried a large embroidered reticule in her bemittened hand.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • Going to the stage, he took down his five-foot snowshoes, slipped his moccasined feet into the thongs, and with his gun resting in the hollow of his bemittened hand, and the sled's hauling-line over his shoulder, strode off through the vaulted aisles between the boles of the evergreens; while through a tiny slit in the wall of his moose-skin home two loving eyes watched the stalwart figure vanishing among the trees.

    The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

  • I think I'm going to make some of these (what are they? find out soon!) with crying, mittenless kittens on the front and these bemittened kittens on the back.

    T H E . T H R I F T Y . K N I T T E R 2010

  • The leaves on the trees are turning and dying and falling and for every moment that seems to take an eternity – a leaf floats to the ground while we wait for the school bell to ring – there’s another – that same leaf is snatched up by a wee bemittened hand and stuffed in a pocket – that passes in an instant.

    As Time Goes By | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Mme. la Duchesse douairière d'Agen thereupon closed the gilt-edged, much-bethumbed Missal which she was reading -- since this was Sunday and she had been unable to attend Mass owing to that severe twinge of rheumatism in her right knee -- and placed it upon the table close to her elbow; then with delicate, bemittened hand she smoothed out one unruly crease in her puce silk gown and finally looked up through her round, bone-rimmed spectacles at the sober-visaged, majestic personage who stood at attention in the doorway.

    The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • [Illustration: Going to the stage, he took down his five-foot snowshoes, slipped his moccasined feet info the thongs, and with his gun resting in the hollow of his bemittened hand, and the sled's hauling-line over his shoulder, strode off through the vaulted aisles between the boles of evergreens; while through a tiny slit in the wall of his moose-skin home two loving eyes watched his stalwart figure vanishing among the ...

    The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

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