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

The apple's boast the meadow heard, The meadow rich beflowered: "Boast not, thou smooth, round apple red, But see how I am carpeted, So green and richly dowered!"

From An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics by Various

She did so, and revealed a pincushion, but a pincushion so befrilled and belaced and beflowered one could scarce tell what it was.

From Marjorie at Seacote by Wells, Carolyn

In recalling bright colouring like this, one is reminded of Chaucer and his unfailing delight in gay colours, which he constantly brings before us in describing garden, woodland, or beflowered gown.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various