beflowered

[ bih-flou-erd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1620–30; be- + flower + -ed ²

Was this impression disturbed when from their tiring-room the nymphs and dames emerged powdered, beflowered, effulgent?

She wore white with long white kid gloves and a beflowered hat which represented the hoarded total of six weeks' wages.

It was already crowded here, and his first impression was of a mass of silk hats and beflowered millinery rather than of pictures.

Nancy came hastily into the room and from the broad mantel-piece took down two beflowered tea-cups, kept there as ornaments.

An Angel lived there—an Angel in a dizzily beflowered wrapper and a crabbed exterior.

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