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Definition of Becloaked
1. becloak [v] - See also: becloak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Becloaked
Literary usage of Becloaked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Captain Landon: A Story of Modern Rome by Richard Savage (1899)
"... to wander back to the Hotel de Russie, watched only by the stars and the
becloaked and cocked- hatted gens d'armes, lurking on the dark street corners. ..."
2. My Farm of Edgewood: A Country Book by Donald Grant Mitchell (1884)
"becloaked and shawled figures enter and pass through the carriages ; they may be
black, or white, or gray, or kinsfolk — you see nothing but ..."
3. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"... rude peasants of the Me'doc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the
court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing many- coloured stream; ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"With downcast face impending over him, like Jael over nailed Sisera in the tent,
was the domino; now no more becloaked. ..."
5. Adventure Guide to Bermuda by Blair Howard (2004)
"Be- wigged and becloaked barristers argue their cases before a panel of judges
dressed in long, white wigs and bright red robes. The "Yes, me Luds," "No, ..."
6. Outing (1893)
"... that they and the carriage were waiting. It was now about ten o'clock. In the
parlors upstairs they found dozens of becloaked and ..."
7. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"This tall, becloaked, obscure figure could be nobody else than my cabin fellow, Mr.
George Pellew. "I am glad to see you on deck," said I, ..."
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