Noun : Peonies were in flower. ,Poetic drama was in flower in Elizabethan England. ,the flower of American youth. ,flowers of sulfur. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a flowered dress. From Dictionary.com.
Other, more tame objects include gentlemen on horseback and women in flowered dresses. From Wordnik.com. [Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan] Reference
She looked down and saw the woman's feet in flowered Keds, the toe of one shoe covering the toe of the other. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference
Catrinas wander through waves of butterflies on other plates, along with likenesses of gaping skulls clothed in flowered hats. From Wordnik.com. [Catrina: Skeletons take over the art of Capula, Michoacan] Reference
All of this "flowered" into full-on depression by my junior year of high school. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Of meadows in flowered greenery. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The Duchess of Kent wore a striped and "flowered" brocade, with quantities of black lace relieving the white satin of her train. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2] Reference
Now, as she came down the stairs she was clad in some kind of flowered gown of blue and white which set off her fair loveliness divinely. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie] Reference
The short, large-flowered alliums are a funny lot. From Wordnik.com. [Gardens: Alliums] Reference
She won't admire your flowered skirt the way I would. From Wordnik.com. [Still Life in a Bowl] Reference
Pretty girls wearing long flowered skirts, but funny shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Are the Feet: Part One] Reference
For a brief, shining moment the counterculture that flowered was biracial. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Values?] Reference
The walls have flowered paper; the trim and ceiling are gray in the shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference
I wanted a vegetable garden, a bed with a flowered spread, and lace curtains. From Wordnik.com. [Powdered Sugar on Bare Skin] Reference
We sat under the broken umbrella, its flowered fabric hanging limp on one side. From Wordnik.com. [Broken] Reference
Even more surprising, though, were the flowered skirt and kerchief she wore. From Wordnik.com. [The Paprika Ewer] Reference
By the way, I don't wear stockings, pumps or flowered dresses with lace collars. From Wordnik.com. [Thou Shalt Not Turn Me Into a False Idol] Reference
In these works, the whole stage danced: movement, music and story flowered as one. From Wordnik.com. [Classics With Cartwheels] Reference
So, it's not surprising that democracy has not flowered there despite our best efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Lifestyle Changes, Regime Changes] Reference
I'll be wearing my old soft flowered robe and satin ballerina slippers, and no makeup. From Wordnik.com. [Long Moments] Reference
The model is wearing flowered black pumps, which they're all horrified is so "matchy matchy.". From Wordnik.com. [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 4, "Hats Off To You"] Reference
The optimism that flowered immediately after the riots now alternates with an unsettling pessimism. From Wordnik.com. [L.A.: No Mood For Harmony] Reference
As elsewhere in the world, democracy flowered there in the two decades after the end of the Cold War. From Wordnik.com. [A Democracy 'Reset'] Reference
But museums have formed and flowered as public institutions because they bring art and history and science to people. From Wordnik.com. [Jim McNutt: Why Teach Kids in Museums?] Reference
Everything matches; the blue and red flowered wallpaper and comforter in the bedroom, for example, are from-surprise!. From Wordnik.com. [A Room With A Point Of View] Reference
Those reforms did not produce any visible results until his final years, and flowered into a boom only after he was gone. From Wordnik.com. [Overthrowing Pinochet] Reference
I want to lie in bed with you, in my flowered boxer shorts and ignore all of the stuff I need to do around the apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Billets Doux] Reference
He is the most rumpled senator, and in a dark blue shirt and flowered necktie he looks like the Sixties settled into tenure. From Wordnik.com. [Political Unitarianism] Reference
Above, a line of camels saunter across a stretch of land dotted with yellow-flowered tumble thistle and tiny pink sun roses. From Wordnik.com. [Mine Land] Reference
Police hypothesize that her body was then dragged across the room, where it was found under the flowered duvet from her bed. From Wordnik.com. [Fourth Suspect in ‘Extreme Sex’ Murder] Reference
She's drinking wine out of a coffee mug and shivering; it's November and the fabric of her flowered robe is much too thin. From Wordnik.com. [Things Every Woman Should Know About Love] Reference
I remember how fresh I felt on that first day of spring in 2006, when I finally got to put on a flowered dress and head to work. From Wordnik.com. [Reporters Uncensored: Where's The Justice? Sexual Abuse Continues At The United Nations] Reference
He turns the light on and I can see the flowered wallpaper, roses, that always give me the creeps when I lie in there with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys] Reference
All it had to offer was a battered Sony PlayStation covered with a red flowered plastic tablecloth to protect it from dust and sweat. From Wordnik.com. [Tuning In, Turning On] Reference
He was drinking ouzo himself, and discussing his method of spray painting with Mary Jo, who was dressed in a long flowered hippie dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 10] Reference
This hosts numerous pot-grown plants that find their way there after they have flowered and are rotated in favour of others at their peak. From Wordnik.com. [Gardens: Roof gardens] Reference
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