beshawled

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ shawled.

Adjective

beshawled (not comparable)

1. Wearing a shawl.
   • 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In Quest of a Solution”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 41:

     In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.