1.
[syn: bespoke, bespoken, made-to-order, tailored, tailor-made]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bespoke \Be*spoke"\ (b[-e]*sp[=o]k"),
imp. & p. p. of Bespeak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bespeak \Be*speak"\, v. t. [imp. Bespoke, Bespake (Archaic);
p. p. Bespoke, Bespoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Bespeaking.]
[OE. bispeken, AS. besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be-
+ sprecan to speak. See Speak.]
1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage
against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a
favor.
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Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice
was to bespeak his favor. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.
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[They] bespoke dangers . . . in order to scare the
allies. --Swift.
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3. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or
appearances.
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When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so
little the figure of a man that it bespoke him
rather a monster. --Locke.
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4. To speak to; to address. [Poetic]
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He thus the queen bespoke. --Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bespoke
adj 1: (of clothing) custom-made [syn: bespoke, bespoken,
made-to-order, tailored, tailor-made]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
custom
bespoke
(Or "bespoke") An adjective describing any product that is
special in some way, individually created for a specific user
or system, as opposed to generic or off-the-shelf.
(2008-06-25)