flowered, ppl. a.
(ˈflaʊəd)
[f. flower n. and v. + -ed1, -ed2.]
1. Having flowers; covered with flowers or blossoms; adorned or decked with flowers.
| c 1350 Will. Palerne 757 Þat [appel] tre so fayre was floured & so ful leued. 1389 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 30 Yey..schullen offeren to floured candelys a-forn seynt Willyams toumbe. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §20 Hawdod hath..v. or syxe braunches, floured in the toppe. 1601 Weever Mirr. Mart. vi. ii. These Nimphs of Ashdon forrest neuer haunted Medways flour'd banks. 1832 Tennyson Miller's Dau. 112 I came, and lay Upon the freshly-flower'd slope. |
b. Bearing flowers (of a specified kind or number).
| 1592 Breton Pilgr. Parad. xxxiii (Grosart) I. 8 He..faire flourd weedes, as poison foule refused. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Poinciana..Purple-flowered acacia. 1776 Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 157 Calyx 6 or 8-flowered. 1842 Tennyson Godiva 63 She saw The white-flower'd elder-thicket. 1877–84 F. E. Hulme Wild Fl. p. v, Peduncle axillary, one or two-flowered. |
† 2. In flower or bloom. Obs.
| 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vi. lxviii, The early Violet..spreading his flour'd purple to the skies. 1787 Generous Attachm. IV. 170 A bed of flowered asparagus. |
3. Embellished with figures of flowers, or with flower-like patterns.
| 1592 Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iv. 64 Why then is my Pump well flower'd. 1663 Dryden Wild Gallant iii. ii, Your gown..flowered satin. 1742 Mrs. Pendarves in Sydney Eng. in 18 C. I. 98 Very handsome flowered silks shaded like embroidery. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. II. 172 Polished stones, embossed and elegantly flowered. 1812–6 J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art. I. 151 Some of the later perpendicular buildings have much less flowered carvings. 1825 Hone Every-day Bk. I. 967 Flowered Indian gowns. |
b. flowered silver: see quot. 1886.
| 1727 A. 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. 1886 Yule & 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.
| 1739 J. 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. |