beflowered

American  

[bih-flou-erd] / bɪˈflaʊ ərd /

adjective

1. adorned or decorated with flowers.

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Etymology

Origin of beflowered

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 • 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

Nancy came hastily into the room and from the broad mantel-piece took down two beflowered tea-cups, kept there as ornaments.

From Old Ebenezer by Read, Opie Percival

And now, when all were awake, he lay asleep, beflowered, roses on his breast, a broken heart perfumed.

From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival

The apple's boast the meadow heard, The meadow rich beflowered: "Boast not, thou smooth, round apple red, But see how I am carpeted, So green and richly dowered!"

From An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics by Various