Beflag

//bɪˈflæɡ// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on. transitive

    "Apart from the beflagging of streets and the organisation of processions and festivities, the idea was to make the security arrangements so prodigious and so inconvenient that the extreme importance of the Marshal’s person would be forcibly impressed upon the minds of the people of Budapest."

Example

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"Apart from the beflagging of streets and the organisation of processions and festivities, the idea was to make the security arrangements so prodigious and so inconvenient that the extreme importance of the Marshal’s person would be forcibly impressed upon the minds of the people of Budapest."

Etymology

From be- + flag.

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