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
In recalling bright colouring like this, one is reminded of Chaucer and his unfailing delight in gay colours, which he constantly brings before us in describing garden, woodland, or beflowered gown.
From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various
A crowded, beflowered church bore witness to the fact that Darcy was still a name to be reckoned with in the community.
From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
It was already crowded here, and his first impression was of a mass of silk hats and beflowered millinery rather than of pictures.
From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Zangwill, Louis
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