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  • One of the show's inspired moments, for instance, conjures up a "Wizard of Oz"/"Star Wars" mash-up, with Dorothy (a bewigged and befrocked Martin) yellow-brick-roading along with Yoda (a puppet), instead of Toto, in her basket.

    Celia Wren reviews 'Completely Hollywood (Abridged)' at Kennedy Center 2010

  • I mean, he can't do his really outrageous stuff due nor does a lot of his humor go over well with befrocked, mainly middle-aged and up, rich white people.

    Archive 2005-02-01 2005

  • It was two hours 'toil for the mother to turn the four brown-limbed, nearly naked, dirty, happy towsle-tops into four little martyrs, befrocked, beribboned, becombed and be-booted.

    Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • When they came to the steps the Jaguar descended and held out his clerically befrocked arms so that the gurgler from Mark's shoulder and the giggler from Nell's arms both fell into his embrace at one time.

    The Heart's Kingdom Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • Ringfield, handsome, healthy, with pulsing vitality, active senses and strong magnetic personality, was consecrated to preaching and to what was called "leading souls to Christ" as much as any severe, wedded-to-silence, befrocked and tonsured priest.

    Ringfield A Novel 1897

  • In the audience the befrocked visitor from up-town sits cheek by jowl with the pigtailed Chinaman and the dark-browed Italian.

    Children of the Tenements 1881

  • The befrocked, unfrocked, and very sheepish in his ways, followed the sacred wishes of his father, and consented to the said marriage without knowing what

    Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • The befrocked, unfrocked, and very sheepish in his ways, followed the sacred wishes of his father, and consented to the said marriage without knowing what

    Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • a quaint, befrocked figure, framed in the yawning doorway and backed by the glory of the morning.

    The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • If you girls aren't sufficiently befrocked, frock up at once. "

    The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915

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