bestreakv.
/bɪˈstriːk/ transitive. To overspread with streaks, to streak.
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?1590–1 J. Burel Discription Queens Entry Edinb. in Poems sig. M2 Thair girtens wer of gold bestreik.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 65 When the dawn bestreak'd the East.
1849 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville 86 The animal is bestreaked with vermilion, or with white clay.
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beˈstreaked adj.
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a1658 J. Cleveland Sing-song in Wks. (1687) 256 Her Cheeks bestreak'd with white and red.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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