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 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

The young girl's face in the window, with her beflowered hat, a rose crowned with roses, in the dark setting of the window, was beautiful.

From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge

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