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  • adjective Wearing a shawl.

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Examples

  • She stood, calmly, though the beshawled women to right and left of her yanked at her coat.

    Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

  • She stood, calmly, though the beshawled women to right and left of her yanked at her coat.

    Fanny Herself 1917

  • Presently I saluted this solitary woman, and, turning away, left her amid the desolate ruin of that once busy square, her beshawled head bowed above feverishly busy fingers, left her as I had found her -- waiting.

    Great Britain at War Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Glancing about I beheld a beshawled head that rose above the littered pavement, and, as I stared, the head nodded and smiling wanly, accosted me again.

    Great Britain at War Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.

    The Sign of Four 1915

  • In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.

    The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • A wild wish swept through her that she knew how to drive and could put on all the power and drive away, even kidnapping the shrunken, beshawled slave in the tonneau.

    In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date Clara Louise Burnham 1890

  • In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.

    The Sign Of The Four Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. The sign of the four 1889

  • A stout, middle-aged woman of ungirt waist and beshawled head and shoulders appeared at the gateway as if awaiting him.

    The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte 1869

  • So, when I got into the carriage, who should I find, beshawled, and beflowered, and betoggled in blue satin and white lace, but our old friend ---- of Andover concert memory, now become Madame Thingumbob, of European celebrity.

    Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

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