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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

The town itself was bright and clean looking, and there was a handsome boulevard leading from the new Gothic railway station situated in a beflowered parkway, which was lined with prosperous looking shops.

From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton

Matched with a beflowered tie, either would have gone perfectly around the neck of a Polish immigrant in New York on his wedding day.

From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams

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

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