bepæcestre
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Equivalent to be- + pǣċan + -estre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bepǣċestre f (nominative plural bepǣċestran)
- a woman who deceives, entices, or flatters; seductress
Declension
[edit]Declension of bepǣċestre (weak)
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “BEPǢĊESTRE”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.