Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Draped; ornamented with something hanging: as, a horse behung with trappings.

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  • adjective Draped; ornamented with something hanging.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of behang.

Etymologies

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Past participle of behang, equivalent to be- +‎ hung.

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Examples

  • Dunlop was the name was on him: behung, all we are his bisaacles.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • In fancy he trod winding lanes that ran between giant hedges: hedges in tender bud, with dew on them; or snowed over with white mayflowers; or behung with the fairy webs and gossamer of early autumn, thick as twine beneath their load of moisture.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Armagh the splendid behung with corpses of papishes.

    Ulysses 2003

  • It was a large, darkly-panelled, stone-flagged room with enormous adze-cut smoke-blackened beams and walls behung with ancient and rusty suits of armour, ancient and rusty weapons of all kinds and scores of armorial bearings, some of which could have - been genuine.

    Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967

  • Ober-Amtmann; before him were placed, at a velvet-behung table, his

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

  • Up caught Arthur his shield, before his breast, and he gan to rush as the howling wolf, when he cometh from the wood, behung with snow, and thinketh to bite such beasts as he liketh.

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

  • With war-helms behung, and with boards of the battle,

    The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

  • The backs of those in the distance, behung with bags, major perukes, pinners, &c. are most laughably ludicrous.

    The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

  • The lodge of Diamond in Armagh the splendid behung with corpses of papishes.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • They met with cold winds; the sail was behung with icicles, but the brothers were always to the fore.

    Kormáks saga. English 1862- [Translator] J��n Stef��nsson 1893

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