beseeming

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Fr. convenable, apt, fit, meet for, beseeming, seemlie, &c.

From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Furnivall, Frederick James

She stood near the door of the great drawing-room of the Knollys mansion, her figure beseeming well its framing of deep hangings and rich tapestries.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony

It was like a masquerade of rank and culture in the rags of misery, beseeming it as ill as an unsuitable part in a play.

From Footsteps of Fate by Couperus, Louis

A voyce vndoubtedly full well beseeming the sonnes of God, arguing the notable comfort of his soule amidst the very pangs of death.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard