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
She snatched the beflowered hat away, and swung it upon her head with the same reckless hand that had swept the lantern to the ground in her childish defence of him.
From The Wishing Moon by Dutton, Louise Elizabeth
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.
Garbed in their immaculate monkey-jackets, with the glistening gold braid on the cuffs, the men at the carefully set and beflowered table make a scene long to be remembered.
From Some Naval Yarns by Hall, Mordaunt
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