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
The whole story was to the public eye very much covered over and beflowered like the wall of a park.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
The lights, switched suddenly on, flashed into Judith's eyes, and Norah confronted her, peculiarly forbidding in a discarded cape of Judith's and her own beflowered best hat.
From The Wishing Moon by Dutton, Louise Elizabeth
Even the Gay Lady's trunk was clad in a trim, beflowered cover of linen, and looked a part of the place.
From A Court of Inquiry by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)
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