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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

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

Was this impression disturbed when from their tiring-room the nymphs and dames emerged powdered, beflowered, effulgent?

From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by Curtis, George William

Already in his dreams the Herr Doktor saw his house, his childhood's home, at Weimar, beflowered and garlanded to receive a bride.

From The Red Cross Barge by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

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