befruited en · ADJ
Etymology
From befruit + -ed.
Meanings
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Covered or adorned with fruit
On the floor was a tawdry carpet, all beflowered and befruited,—such a meretricious blur of colors as a hotel offers for vulgar feet to tread upon.
1892, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more befruited | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most befruited | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |