beflowered

American  

[bih-flou-erd] / bɪˈflaʊ ərd /

adjective

1. adorned or decorated with flowers.

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Etymology

Origin of beflowered

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

Example Sentences

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 Dutton, Louise Elizabeth

We drove thither in the afternoon, and heard the bells ringing as we entered the village, and found the rectory-gate set wide and the white-satin-ribboned maids awaiting us on the doorstep of the beflowered house.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada

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 Richardson, Dorothy