ppl. a. [f. BE- + PATCH v.]
1. Mended with patches; wearing patched clothes.
1605. Stow, Ann., 1291. Their habit was Russet, all bepatched.
1846. Sir R. de Coverley, II. 186. You ragged vagabond … you bepatched and bespattered knave.
2. Wearing ‘patches’ on the face as an ornament.
1719. Ozell, Misson’s Trav. Eng., 214 (D.). In England, young, old, handsome, ugly, all are bepatch’d till they are bedrid.
1865. Publ. Opinion, 4 March, 237/1. When Cleopatra appeared bepatched in a farthingale, and Alexander wore his helmet over a full-bottomed wig.
