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

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

The town itself was bright and clean looking, and there was a handsome boulevard leading from the new Gothic railway station situated in a beflowered parkway, which was lined with prosperous looking shops.

From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton

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