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third-person singular simple present behangs, present participle behanging, simple past and past participle behung
(transitive) To hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape. quotations examples
Now seven times had frosty-bearded Winter covered both herbs and flowers with snow, and behung the trees with crystal icicles, since the unfortunate St. George beheld the cheerful light of heaven, but lived obscure in a dismal dungeon, […]
1824, Richard Johnson, The renowned history of the seven champions of Christendom
And with rich clusters (hid among / The leaves) her temples I behung: […]
1890, Robert Herrick, William Carew Hazlitt, Hesperides
Moreover, when they have introduced the bride, they spread a fleece under her; and she, having brought in with her a distaff and a spindle, all behangs her husband's door with woollen yarn?
1874, Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough, Plutarch's lives