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English
Etymology
From be- + spur + -ed.
Adjective
bespurred (not comparable)
- Wearing or having spurs.
1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: Adam Iſlip:Esperonné: m. ée: f. Spurred; alſo, beſpurred, hauing ſpurres on his heeles.
1821 July 19, George, Vermont Republican and American Yeoman, volume XIII, number 43, Windsor, Vt.: Simeon Ide, published 8 October 1821:Well, the procession moved on, and, as I got under the canopy, berobed, bemitred, besceptered, and bespurred, I caught a glimpse of Miss Fellows, the herb-woman, who, with six devilish handsome girls, were strewing rosemary and tansy on the blue broadcloth from Manchester;
1935 December 15, Gordon Gaskill, “Boot and Spur”, in The Knoxville Sunday Journal, volume XI, number 51, Knoxville, Tenn., pages 4—C:We found a couple of companion spirits already there, bebooted and bespurred and bebreeched.
1998 October, James Bussacco, “Bring Back the Cowboys Of Long Past Years”, in Prime Time, Sunday Dispatch, page 7:Europe went wild about the cowboy, and all Americans were thought of as striding about bespurred, booted, and hipped with .45’s and lariats, riding a bronco furiously through the main street of every city from New York to Laramie.
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