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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

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 did so, and revealed a pincushion, but a pincushion so befrilled and belaced and beflowered one could scarce tell what it was.

From Marjorie at Seacote by Wells, Carolyn

The whole story was to the public eye very much covered over and beflowered like the wall of a park.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

And now, when all were awake, he lay asleep, beflowered, roses on his breast, a broken heart perfumed.

From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival

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