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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of besom.

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Examples

  • I left San Francisco blanketed in grey fog and besomed by a roaring wind; when I opened my eyes I was in a land of spacious sky and broad, clean sunshine.

    The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

  • It swept the ground in driving gust on gust, swept and besomed it bare of life.

    Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

  • The dried flakes of yellow mud, first besomed and then brushed, raised such a dust, that in the dust, man and horse were lost.

    The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Maria Edgeworth 1808

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