belapped
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɪˈlæpt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bəˈlæpt/
- Rhymes: -æpt
- Hyphenation: be‧lapped
Adjective[edit]
belapped
- (obsolete) Encircled; enveloped; surrounded.
- 1562, Alexander Scott, “To His Heart”, in James Grant Wilson, editor, The Poets and Poetry of Scotland from the Earliest to the Present Time […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1876, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 46:
- Though this belappid body here / Be bound to servitude and thrall, / My faithful heart is free inteir [entire], / And mind to serve my lady at all.
Verb[edit]
belapped
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of belap