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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

Ambrose was wearing a new stove-pipe hat, his swallow tailed coat revealed a new beflowered waistcoat, and in his buttonhole blossomed a rose.

From The Loves of Ambrose by Vandercook, Margaret

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

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

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