Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

befringe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-fringe
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To furnish or adorn with a fringe.

Example Sentences

"[...] women themselves went in armour, (having a brave lasse like another Penthesilea for their leader, so befringed with gold, that they called her Golden-foot) riding astride like men [...]"
"And when I flatter, let my dirty leaves (Like Journals, Odes, and such forgotten things As Eusden, Philips, Settle, writ of Kings) Cloath spice, line trunks, or flutt’ring in a row, Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Sohoe."
"1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan: Cantos IX.—X.—XI., London: John Hunt, Canto 10, stanza 29, p. 32, … each dress he sported, Which set the beauty off in which he glowed, As purple clouds befringe the sun …"
"[…] during a year or more, Gentleman Brown’s ship was to be seen, for many days on end, hovering off an islet befringed with green upon azure, with the dark dot of the mission-house on a white beach […]"

Etymology

From be- (“on, at, upon”) + fringe.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be

Inflected Forms

befringes (present, singular) befringing (participle, present) befringed (participle, past) befringed (past)

Rhymes With

fringe binge cringe hinge syringe infringe tinge twinge singe ging impinge whinge

Questions

What does befringe mean?: To furnish or adorn with a fringe.
Where does befringe come from?: From be- (“on, at, upon”) + fringe.

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