betoga-ed

See also: be-togaed and betogaed

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betoga-ed (not comparable)

Alternative form of be-togaed
- 1927 August 19, “Proud Mother Knows the Day and the Hour When Historic Event Was Consummated, and While the Circumstances Were Extraordinary, It Wasn’t an Immaculate Conception, at That”, in Belleville Daily News-Democrat, volume 72, number 196, Belleville, Ill.: Fred. J. Kern, page four:
  The offices of the betoga-ed and august lawmakers of the upper house Congress lend themselves to other uses than writing statutes and drafting ponderous resolutions.
- 1961 May 16, “Latin Club Stages 7th Roman Banquet”, in The Daily Times, Mamaroneck, N.Y., page 14:
  A costume affair, student ingenuity converts bed linen into togas between school and supper and a betoga-ed Roman pedaling schoolward on his bike causes no alarm in Larchmont, although unsafe in a high wind.
- 1962 April 16, “Hi! It’s Ricki”, in South Pasadena Review, volume 74, number 31, South Pasadena, Calif., page 7:
  Check for reservations may be sent to the PSA, P.O. Box 447, Pasadena, now, so if you want to see and hear this fascinating betoga-ed (he weaves the cloth), bethonged (he makes them, too) philosopher, artist, author, actor, craftsman — “the universal man in the age of specialists” — mail them right now for good seats.
- 1979 October 20, W. James Bastian, “‘Gallia Est Omnis Divisa in Partes Tres’”, in Los Angeles Times, part II, page 4:
  The first day of freshman Latin class a group of betoga-ed persons greeted class members individually and baptized them with Latin names (mine was Lucius Cornelius Cinna) in a brief ceremony in which one of the baptizers says “Hoc nomen tibi do” (“this name I give you”), reads the name, then makes a ritual gesture and places around the neck of the baptized a circular card (on a gold-colored cord) with the Latin name written thereon.
- 1994 February 7, Frances Rourke, “Grecian figures prominent at festival pageant”, in The Galveston County Daily News, volume 151, number 301, page 8-A:
  The royal pair surrounded by grandchildren Craig and Cheryl Cortemeglia, Jennifer Kuhn, Austin Weber, Nick and Holly Veiga, classically betoga-ed, as they made their royal entrance to “Stardust.”