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Definition of Berayed
1. beray [v] - See also: beray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Berayed
Literary usage of Berayed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1844)
"... great bowle full of bloudy water right vpon her head, that all her clothes
and cleane linnen was marred, being so berayed' that she could go no further. ..."
2. An English Prose Miscellany by John Masefield (1907)
"... as though he had new fallen, and been tormented with his painful pangs, his
jerkin being all berayed with dirt and mire, and his hat and hosen also, ..."
3. A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Herefordshire and Some of the by George Cornewall Lewis (1839)
"berayed with blood, dirt, fyc. ... is explained salir, souiller; berayed, sali,
souille, mer- deux; ..."
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