beflowered
Americanadjective
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Origin of beflowered
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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 the little boudoir was a cheerful open fire; large, beflowered silk curtains shaded the windows; on an ivory table ticked a handsome clock set with jewels.
From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai
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 George William Curtis
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
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