beflowered
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of beflowered
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
It was already crowded here, and his first impression was of a mass of silk hats and beflowered millinery rather than of pictures.
From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Zangwill, Louis
There was the majolica pickle-dish, the gilt, beflowered lemonade-glass, Abbie Carter's cracker-jar, certain of the fragile souvenir pin-trays stacked in a corner of the shelf.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
The lights, switched suddenly on, flashed into Judith's eyes, and Norah confronted her, peculiarly forbidding in a discarded cape of Judith's and her own beflowered best hat.
From The Wishing Moon by Dutton, Louise Elizabeth
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