beshawled

English

Etymology

be- +‎ shawled

Adjective

beshawled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a shawl.
    • 1890, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four, London: Spencer Blackett:
      In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.
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