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flowered, ppl. a.|ˈflaʊəd|
[f. flower n. and v. + -ed1, -ed2.]
1. Having flowers; covered with flowers or blossoms; adorned or decked with flowers.
c1350Will. Palerne 757 Þat [appel] tre so fayre was floured & so ful leued. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 30 Yey..schullen offeren to floured candelys a-forn seynt Willyams toumbe. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §20 Hawdod hath..v. or syxe braunches, floured in the toppe. 1601Weever Mirr. Mart. vi. ii. These Nimphs of Ashdon forrest neuer haunted Medways flour'd banks. 1832Tennyson Miller's Dau. 112 I came, and lay Upon the freshly-flower'd slope.
b. Bearing flowers (of a specified kind or number).
1592Breton Pilgr. Parad. xxxiii (Grosart) I. 8 He..faire flourd weedes, as poison foule refused. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Poinciana..Purple-flowered acacia. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 157 Calyx 6 or 8-flowered. 1842Tennyson Godiva 63 She saw The white-flower'd elder-thicket. 1877–84F. E. Hulme Wild Fl. p. v, Peduncle axillary, one or two-flowered.
†2. In flower or bloom. Obs.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vi. lxviii, The early Violet..spreading his flour'd purple to the skies. 1787Generous Attachm. IV. 170 A bed of flowered asparagus.
3. Embellished with figures of flowers, or with flower-like patterns.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iv. 64 Why then is my Pump well flower'd. 1663Dryden Wild Gallant iii. ii, Your gown..flowered satin. 1742Mrs. Pendarves in Sydney Eng. in 18 C. I. 98 Very handsome flowered silks shaded like embroidery. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 172 Polished stones, embossed and elegantly flowered. 1812–6J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art. I. 151 Some of the later perpendicular buildings have much less flowered carvings. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 967 Flowered Indian gowns.
b. flowered silver: see quot. 1886.
1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxvi. 43 Tho' it [Silver] be not flower'd, it must go off in all his Payments, but from any Body else it may be refused if it is not flower'd. 1886Yule & Burnell Gloss. Anglo-Ind., Flowered-Silver, a term applied by Europeans in Burma to the standard quality of silver..The term is taken from the appearance of stars and radiating lines, which forms on the surface of this particular alloy, as it cools in the crucible.
c. Her. = fleury.
1739J. Coats Dict. Her. (ed. 2) s.v. Flory, All Things Flower'd, or Flory, in Arms, respect only the French Lilly, or Fleur de Lys. |