beflowered
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of beflowered
Example Sentences
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I’d finally broken the ice because I wanted to review Merve Emre’s just-published “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway,” and it seemed sensible to first approach Woolf’s book straight on rather than as a beflowered monument.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021
With that she flounced into a car and was off to her beflowered presidential suite at the Hotel Gloria.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, as the beflowered home she had left rose mirage-like in the window of her memory, she sobbingly re-stammered the words: "A ... hole ... in ... the ... ground!"
From The Way of the Wind by Norris, Zoe Anderson
Well, set love and gambling and sport, all done with abandon, in a choice, beflowered fold of this New France country and you may realize what you have missed and I have seen.
From The Black Colonel by Milne, James
She liked to show herself off, and had the sense to see that she looked better in her neat black alpaca with its simple trimmings than in any of her beflowered and bespangled home dresses.
From Good Luck by Meade, L. T.
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