bespurred

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From be- +‎ spur +‎ -ed.

bespurred (not comparable)

1. Wearing or having spurs.
   • 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Iſlip:

     Esperonné: m. ée: f. Spurred; alſo, beſpurred, hauing ſpurres on his heeles.

   • 1821 July 19, George, Vermont Republican and American Yeoman‎, volume XIII, number 43, Windsor, Vt.: Simeon Ide, published 8 October 1821:

     Well, the procession moved on, and, as I got under the canopy, berobed, bemitred, besceptered, and bespurred, I caught a glimpse of Miss Fellows, the herb-woman, who, with six devilish handsome girls, were strewing rosemary and tansy on the blue broadcloth from Manchester;

   • 1935 December 15, Gordon Gaskill, “Boot and Spur”, in The Knoxville Sunday Journal, volume XI, number 51, Knoxville, Tenn., pages 4—C:

     We found a couple of companion spirits already there, bebooted and bespurred and bebreeched.

   • 1998 October, James Bussacco, “Bring Back the Cowboys Of Long Past Years”, in Prime Time, Sunday Dispatch, page 7:

     Europe went wild about the cowboy, and all Americans were thought of as striding about bespurred, booted, and hipped with .45’s and lariats, riding a bronco furiously through the main street of every city from New York to Laramie.

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