What is "flowered"

Usage examples of "flowered".

Intricate plasterwork adorned the ceiling in a flowered medallion style that matched the thick Aubusson carpet on the floor.

There was still equipment fastened to its outer surface, and a scant half-second after the blowoff of the boosters a gigantic parachute flowered above the falling lump of plastic.

The Cathars were an offshoot of the Bogomils, an heretical movement that first flowered in the Balkans in the mid-tenth century, but which remained influential in the area until after the Cathars met their doom.

Tethered to the surface by a trio of cables, the island was a light collection of flowered balconies and lacy bridgework, enclosing a central gas bag, topped by tall whimsical glass spires and greenhouse towers.

The women washed dresses, pink ginghams and flowered cottons, and they hung them in the sun and stretched the cloth to smooth it.

His gauntleted fingers curled at the memory of gossamer blond strands cupped in his palm, and a frustrated despair flowered deep in his belly.

He bent over and began transferring equipment from a twentieth-century suitcase to a Gladstonian monstrosity of flowered cloth.

Caroline and George in their London palace so that they must send to Walpole to soothe them--that boy Charles Edward, whose happiest moment, maybe, is just this when, from that little close-walled flowered garden, he looks across, a fire of ambition at his heart, to a thin line of smoky plum-coloured hills.

Gray hair sprang in thinning coils from her scalp, and she wore a flowered housedress with black plastic slip-ons.

Cotton strings from the hairnet straggled down her nape, and she wore a flowered housedress and a full-length flowered apron.

She was an old woman in a thin flowered housedress with a long apron covering it.

Sometimes the leaves are as large as a full-grown polyanthus leaf, whilst other plants, which have flowered equally well, have not produced foliage larger than that of primroses, when having their earliest flowers.

He stepped out into the open, where his bright white shirt reflected the afternoon sunlight like an overexposed photograph, or a space in a drawing, erased, left painfully unfinished, achingly blank, its tails hanging down over the flowered fabric of his shorts.

From the portrait of one of his least prudish ancestresses by Sir Peter Lely, which hung over the Adam mantelpiece, to the delicate acanthus leaves on the fluted posts of the twin beds, and the flowered brocade of the Duncan Phyfe sewing-stand, the room had always impressed him as being, in some extraordinary fashion, less real than it appeared on the surface.

The screen flowered interconnecting lines, varicolored rhombi marking primary, secondary, and tertiary stations.