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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bedrop.

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Examples

  • The quarter-comprehended verses lived and ate with him, as the bedropped pages showed.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • -- Green bedropped with gold when seen closely, but at a distance looking more like a rusty blackbird, though its gait on the lawn always distinguishes it, being a walk instead of a hop.

    John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • The west window of Chartres is bedropped with crimson deeper than blood; but it is as soft as it is deep, and as quiet as the light of dawn.

    Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 John Ruskin 1859

  • The carpet was of a green ground, bedropped with a small yellow leaf; and in each window a circular, standing basket contained a whole bank of primroses, growing as if in their native soil, their pale yellow blossoms and green leaves harmonizing admirably with the general tone of coloring.

    Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.

    Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly 1852

  • He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.

    Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly 1852

  • In a richer climate, and under a more genial sun, it bears a beauteous flower, whose broad leaves expand themselves to the day, and are clothed with a deep and splendid purple, glossy as velvet, and bedropped with gold.

    Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796

  • The sun was just setting over the beautiful Bay of Naples, -- with its enchanted islands, its jewelled city, its flowery villages, all bedecked and bedropped with strange shiftings and flushes of prismatic light and shade, as if they belonged to some fairy-land of perpetual festivity and singing, -- when Father Francesco stopped in his toilsome ascent up the mountain, and, seating himself on ropy ridges of black lava, looked down on the peaceful landscape.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • Rosebud, appear! "shook the moisture all over her; and instantly the dear child found herself afloat in the air, with pinions of purple gauze, bedropped with gold, with millions of little fairies all about her, swarming like butterflies and blossoms after a pleasant rain, and welcoming their sister Rosebud to Fairy-land.

    Stories of Childhood Various 1885

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