bestourn

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• bes- — representing OF. bes : L. bis ‘twice, at two times, in two ways, doubly’; in Romanic, also, with the sense of ‘secondarily, in an inferior way’; whence, with pejorative force, ‘improperly, unsymmetrically, not right or straight, awry, aslant.’… …   Useful english dictionary