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 oddest combination, and quite a common one, was a sack-like Reform-Kleid, with a saucy little coloured bolero worn over it, fingerless gloves, and a madly tilted beflowered hat perched on a dowdy coiffure.

From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

Nancy came hastily into the room and from the broad mantel-piece took down two beflowered tea-cups, kept there as ornaments.

From Old Ebenezer by Read, Opie Percival

An Angel lived there—an Angel in a dizzily beflowered wrapper and a crabbed exterior.

From The Chase of the Golden Plate by Futrelle, Jacques