be-booted

See also: bebooted

English

Adjective

be-booted (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of bebooted
   • 1820 December 30, W. H. J. Scott, “The Queen’s Alphabet”, in Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet & Plymouth Journal‎^[1], number 914, Truro: T. R. Gillet, Jun., column 4:

     S was a Sacchi, be-booted and hatted.

   • 1996 June 20, Jim Gibson, “Saanich mayoral race could begin next week”, in Times Colonist, 138th year, number 185, Victoria, B.C., page B2, column 5:

     Instead the be-jeaned, be-booted and big-hatted group were dispatched to the less formal Empress room …

   • 2000 January 6, Clellie Lynch, “Counting crows”, in The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass., page A7, column 3:

     Picture a group of tired (owling starts about an hour before dawn and the last birds counted are gleaned from the merest traces of daylight), red-faced and pink-handed (worse when the count day is gray, snowy and the temperature is below freezing), be-booted and de-downed, (piles of hats, coats and gloves cover the beds in the makeshift cloakroom) men, women and children bunched together in a living room waiting to contribute their numbers to the total.