be-booted

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English

Adjective

be-booted (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of bebooted.
    • 1820 December 30, W. H. J. Scott, “The Queen’s Alphabet”, in Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet & Plymouth Journal, number 914, Truro: T. R. Gillet, Jun., column 4:
      S was a Sacchi, be-booted and hatted.
    • 1996 June 20, Jim Gibson, “Saanich mayoral race could begin next week”, in Times Colonist, 138th year, number 185, Victoria, B.C., page B2, column 5:
      Instead the be-jeaned, be-booted and big-hatted group were dispatched to the less formal Empress room …
    • 2000 January 6, Clellie Lynch, “Counting crows”, in The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass., page A7, column 3:
      Picture a group of tired (owling starts about an hour before dawn and the last birds counted are gleaned from the merest traces of daylight), red-faced and pink-handed (worse when the count day is gray, snowy and the temperature is below freezing), be-booted and de-downed, (piles of hats, coats and gloves cover the beds in the makeshift cloakroom) men, women and children bunched together in a living room waiting to contribute their numbers to the total.