beflowered
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of beflowered
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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
She snatched the beflowered hat away, and swung it upon her head with the same reckless hand that had swept the lantern to the ground in her childish defence of him.
From The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton
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 Zoe Anderson Norris
The hats on the shelf above were in strict accord with the gowns and the cloaks and the foot-gear—a gorgeous assortment of Easter millinery, wherein the beflowered and beplumed picture-hat predominated.
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson
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