be-togaed
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be-togaed (not comparable)
- Wearing a toga.
- 1856 June 7, “The Royal Academy Exhibition”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume II, number 32, London: John W. Parker and Son, pages 123–124:
- The visitor who sets foot within those precincts in which, year by year, colossal warriors jostle nymphs who, in their turn, leer at be-cloaked and be-togaed statesmen—under whose very eyes naked little Cupids sprawl and play antics that ought to put to the blush those respectable male and female busts which are literally shelved all round—cannot but feel stunned and dizzy, as it were, with the bustle and confusion of the crowd, from the moment of his entry to that of his exit.
- 1882 March 26, St. Joseph Herald[1], volume XXVI, St. Joseph, Mo.:
- Upon the fiftieth anniversary of his employment the Senate presented him a gold snuff-box, a senatorial institution, as may be gathered from the remarks of the old gentleman, who was abundant in anecdote of be[-]togaed snuff-takers.
- 1923 June 9, “Literary Lights—and Shades”, in Haldeman-Julius Weekly, number 1436, Girard, Kan., page 2:
- Professor Sherman, meditating upon the shocking state of American Letters, becomes a bespectacled, be-toga-ed minister, palms joined in ecclesiastical anxiety.
- 1995 March 2, Carroll Wilson, “Idea that computers will replace books dead wrong”, in Times Record News, volume 88, number 288, Wichita Falls, Tex., page 5B:
- You can almost see some be-togaed pre-Buckley Roman sage wistfully urging the barbarians to practice their Latin paradigms aloud so as to keep the language alive.
- 2008 June 1, Noel Murray, “‘Semi-Pro’ semi-funny, but it beats ‘Spartans’”, in Los Angeles Times, page E10:
- What is there to say about a movie that begins with a baby Shrek vomiting on a be-toga-ed holy man, and goes downhill from there?
- 2010, Bernard Crick, “Civic Republicanism and Citizenship: the Challenge for Today”, in Bernard Crick, Andrew Lockyer, editors, Active Citizenship: What Could it Achieve and How?, Edinburgh University Press, page 19:
- (Somewhat bizarrely the recent statue of David Hume in Edinburgh’s High Street has him be-togaed in eighteenth-century fashion).
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wearing a toga — see togate