What is "bemedalled"

Usage examples of "bemedalled".

Ruefully he continued leafing through the pathetically exuberant pages, studying at the end a full-page portrait, bemedalled and becrossed, of King Leopold of the Belgians, a gallant son of a gallant father, who, it forecast, would never bow to the Germans.

She recognised Generalissimo Hernandez, but at close quarters this rotund little man in his braided, bemedalled uniform looked even less like a dictator than he had in the photograph Major Fairhaven had shown her.

Brennan brushed past a couple of bemedalled attaches, jacket flapping, unshaven, certain that only moments separated him from security intervention.

There are several sorts, as with Commissaires, ranging from bemedalled Generals to Substitutes thin and pale as stalks of celery, and I got a pretty grand one, judging by some mellow panelling and a fine Empire desk with lots of bronze acanthus leaves for me to trip over.

Imperial soirees, and as often thought would do better at running the Empire than their bemedalled spouses.

Anyone sharp-eyed enough to have caught sight of the occupants of the Mercedes that evening as it sped through the centre of Fettlesham in the direction of Fettlesham Royal Infirmary would have thought they were hallucinating: an ageing German admiral with a handlebar moustache was at the wheel of the car, a heavily bemedalled SS officer was in the passenger seat, and an overweight nun with crimson lips and sky-blue eye-shadow was sitting in the back gesticulating.

For every happy bemedalled young officer there were a hundred men and women who looked tired and dejected.

From that time on, Hirohito had appeared in public only in the bemedalled military garb of commander in chief.

But still they were to be found in every tavern, these scarred, bemedalled survivors of shot and shell who dreamed of being under fire as others might dream of paradise.

Towering over the seated Staff, he was an imposing figure in his bemedalled dress uniform, and his voice was imperious.

After the long parades of bemedalled veterans earlier that day, the serious and apathetic Muscovites were transformed.

At the outset, old Margaillan, glorifying in his bemedalled son-in-law, had trotted him about and introduced him everywhere as his partner and successor.

In their own place, the gentlemen left their toppers, bemedalled officers their caps.

There he was greeted by the parliamentary member, the representatives of the local council, various trembling beadles and burghers, and a squad of shrunken, bemedalled regimental pensioners in their frayed crimson tunics, ready for one final war.

Old Edward showed them into the main hall, filled with bemedalled diplomats and bejewelled ladies.