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 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
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
Ambrose was wearing a new stove-pipe hat, his swallow tailed coat revealed a new beflowered waistcoat, and in his buttonhole blossomed a rose.
From The Loves of Ambrose by Vandercook, Margaret
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