beflagとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From be- +‎ flag.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /bɪˈflæɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /biˈflæɡ/, /bə-/
• 韻: -æɡ
• ハイフネーション: be‧flag

動詞

beflag (三人称単数 現在形 beflags, 現在分詞 beflagging, 過去形および過去分詞形 beflagged)

1. (transitive) To decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on.
   • 1949, Derek Kartun, Tito’s Plot against Europe, London: Lawrence & Wishart, Chapter 9, p. 62,^[1]

     Apart from the beflagging of streets and the organisation of processions and festivities, the idea was to make the security arrangements so prodigious and so inconvenient that the extreme importance of the Marshal’s person would be forcibly impressed upon the minds of the people of Budapest.

   • 1992, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing! New York: Harcourt Brace, Chapter 14, p. 124,^[2]

     What she was experiencing was an absence of sounds in general, not my own peculiar distinction of noises no longer heard: the screeching of pulley-wheels as rainyday washings rose to beflag the ceiling; the thump of doors closing […]