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flowery

[flou-uh-ree] / ˈflaʊ ə ri /


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The windows of the Druzhkivka tram were open on a sweltering summer afternoon as women wearing flowery dresses and men in light shirts made their way to the weekend market.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Because of this, she dressed in "soft, flowery, not particularly fashion-forward" clothes.

From BBC Jan. 24, 2026

But it takes a boat ride out there — ideally followed by a night of camping — to appreciate the island’s rugged bluffs, flowery meadows, raw beaches and sea caves.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2025

The denizens of Millionaire’s Row wore white linen, seersucker suits, flowery hats and expensive lace versus the short pants and bathing suits among those who lived in the infield.

From Salon May 4, 2024

Fra-gile-ness is sitting on her bold as one n’em awful flowery church hats Ma and the other women wear on Sunday.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

The 30-year-old took the opportunity to use “bigger, flowerier, prettier words” in her lyrics without fear of those words not tracking on pop radio.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2020

Emperor Kien Lung wrote, 200 years or more ago, for the benefit of his children, just before he left the Flowery Kingdom for a flowerier:

From The Little Tea Book by George Washington Hood

Richmond's five-year-old Virginia Museum of Fine Arts put the whole Chrysler collection on exhibition, and 989 art lovers including Richmond's floweriest socialites went to look.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the strath opened out and we saw Ken flow silver-clear between the greenest and floweriest banks in the world.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

"It is the airiest, floweriest, sunniest, brightest, most delightful altogether house, that ever took lodgers in!"

From The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

One can't describe the beauty of the Italian lakes, nor would one try if one could; the floweriest rhetoric can recall it only as a picture on a fireboard recalls a Claude.

From Italian Hours by Henry James

I judge the institution to have been in its floweriest state, probably now in Hakon Jarl's time.

From Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle




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