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beflowered

American  
[bih-flou-erd] / bɪˈflaʊ ərd /

adjective

  1. adorned or decorated with flowers.


Etymology

Origin of beflowered

First recorded in 1620–30; be- + flower + -ed 2

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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 lights, switched suddenly on, flashed into Judith's eyes, and Norah confronted her, peculiarly forbidding in a discarded cape of Judith's and her own beflowered best hat.

From The Wishing Moon by Dutton, Louise Elizabeth

And then the cold weather before long put an end to the little promenades of rime by the shore, and Gard had to try other lines of attack on this radiant and beflowered German fortress.

From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver

Well, set love and gambling and sport, all done with abandon, in a choice, beflowered fold of this New France country and you may realize what you have missed and I have seen.

From The Black Colonel by Milne, James

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