beflagged

English

Etymology

From beflag +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪˈflæɡd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /biˈflæɡd/, /bə-/
• Rhymes: -æɡd
• Hyphenation: be‧flagged

Adjective

beflagged (comparative more beflagged, superlative most beflagged)

1. Decorated or hung with a flag or flags.
   • 1891, George du Maurier, “Part Sixth”, in Peter Ibbetson […], New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 410:

     It amuses me to think by day, when broad awake in my sad English prison, and among my crazy peers, how this nightly umbrageous French solitude of mine, so many miles and years away, is now but a common, bare, wide grassy plain, overlooked by a gaudy, beflagged grand-stand.

   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “Prologue. In the Marquesas.”, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 1:

     All other folks slumbered and took their rest: Vaekehu, the native Queen, in her trim house under the rustling palms; the Tahitian missionary, in his beflagged official residence; […]

   • 1941 November, “Notes and News: G.W.R. Main-Line Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 521:

     There was little ceremonial to mark the opening of the completed railway beyond the fact that a decorated train left Paddington at 8 a.m. on the morning of June 30 a hundred years ago and, passing the beflagged ends of Box tunnel, arrived at Bristol at noon.

Verb

beflagged

1. simple past and past participle of beflag

Further reading

• “beflagged, adj.” under “be-, prefix”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021.