beflowered

[ bih-flou-erd ]

adjective

1. adorned or decorated with flowers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beflowered¹

First recorded in 1620–30; be- + flower + -ed ²

Example Sentences

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

But—as in “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” which is partly set on the brooding, beflowered moor—a challenging and even perilous adventure lay in wait.

From Wall Street Journal

Images of early twentieth-century suffragists marching for the vote in their long skirts and beflowered hats can give the impression that women’s political power gradually grew from the distant past through today, but American history has not been a constant march toward broader political rights.

From Time

An Angel lived there—an Angel in a dizzily beflowered wrapper and a crabbed exterior.

From Project Gutenberg

We drove thither in the afternoon, and heard the bells ringing as we entered the village, and found the rectory-gate set wide and the white-satin-ribboned maids awaiting us on the doorstep of the beflowered house.

From Project Gutenberg