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English
Verb
begemmed
- simple past and past participle of begem
Adjective
begemmed (comparative more begemmed, superlative most begemmed)
- Adorned (as if) with gems.
1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides. A Prison-Rhyme., London: Jeremiah How, , book IV, stanza XXII, page 134:Childhood’s sweet fields renewed, / With daisies and with king-cups gay begemmed, / I saw: then Lindsey’s sweetest sanctitude / Of Druid woods arose, where, giant-stemmed, / Upreared old trees anew with verdure diademmed.
1897, Mary H. Kingsley, chapter 27, in Travels in West Africa, London: Macmillan, page 608:I […] went on down that road which was more terrible than ever now to my bruised, weary feet, but even more lovely than ever in the dying light of the crimson sunset, with all its dark shodows among the trees begemmed with countless fire-flies […]
1956, Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell, London: Chatto & Windus:Praeternaturally brilliant flowers bloom in most of the Other Worlds described by primitive eschatologists, and even in the begemmed and glassy paradises of the more advanced religions they have their place.
2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Book Three, p. 309:Just as colorful as the flowers was Sophie Sassoon herself. In a purple muumuu, braceleted and begemmed, she glided from chair to chair.
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