be-sashed

See also: besashed

English

Adjective

be-sashed (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of besashed
   • 1974 December 5, Hugo Cole, “Handel without bars: Hugo Cole on tonight’s DIY Messiah”, in The Guardian, page 10, column 6:

     The gains are great—yet I still remember with delight and awe the shouts of “Wonderful! Counsellor!” from the huge, sweating enthusiastic, be-sashed mass of humanity that made up the Royal Choral Society of my youth, and will be desolate if I never hear again Mozart’s strange and wonderful (though dramatically inappropriate) counterpoints to “The people that walked in darkness.”

   • 1996 February 6, Kim Franke-Folstad, “Cookies from cyberspace: Girl Scouts turn to ’net sales for fun, profit”, in The Tennessean, volume 92, number 37, Nashville, Tenn., page 1D:

     Just how badly do you want your Thin Mints? Because if you think some little girl in green — pigtailed, bereted and be-sashed — is going to deliver them to your front door, you may be in for a very long wait.

   • 2006 March 25, Jojo Robles, “Filipino Geishas”, in Pacific Daily News, volume 37, number 52, Hagåtña, Guam, page 14, column 3:

     It’s about the fifth-most important beauty pageant in the country, my be-sashed seatmate informs me.