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English
Etymology
From be- + frog + -ed.
Adjective
befrogged (comparative more befrogged, superlative most befrogged)
- Adorned with ornamental braid fasteners.
1890 February, A Conan Doyle, “The Story of the Bald-headed Man”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett , →OCLC, pages 66–67:Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs.
1904 November 10, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:The season was, in local parlance, "on," the elements were assembled; the big windy hotel, the draughty social hall, swarmed with "types," in Charlotte's constant phrase, and resounded with a din in which the wild music of gilded and befrogged bands, Croatian, Dalmatian, Carpathian, violently exotic and nostalgic, was distinguished as struggling against the perpetual popping of corks.