ppl. a. [f. FLOWER sb. and v. + -ED1, 2.]
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 a blewe floure, and a fewe lyttell leues, and hath .v. or syxe braunches, floured in the toppe.
1601. J. Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs, VI. ii.
| These Nimphs of Ashdon forrest neuer haunted | |
| Medways flour’d banks. |
1832. Tennyson, Miller’s Dau., 112.
| I knew your taper far away, | |
| And full at heart of trembling hope, | |
| From off the wold 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.
| The holsome sauoure to his seruice vsed, | |
| And faire flourd weedes, as poison foule refused. |
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Poinciana … Purple-flowered acacia.
1776. Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 157. Leaves blunt, broader, shorter, glaucous: calyx 6 or 8-flowered.
1842. Tennyson, Godiva, 62.
| Not less thro’ all bore up, till, last, she saw | |
| The white-flower’d elder-thicket from the field | |
| Gleam thro’ the Gothic archways in the wall. |
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 will fresh arise, | |
| And spreading his flour’d purple to the skies, | |
| Boldly the little elf the winters spite defies. |
1787. Generous Attachment, IV. 170. A bed of flowered asparagus.
3. Embellished with figures of flowers, or with flower-like patterns.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., II. iv. 64. Rom. Why then is my Pump well flower’d.
1663. Dryden, Wild Gallant, III. ii. Your Gown…. Flowr’d Satten.
1742. Mrs. Pendarves, in W. C. Sydney, Eng. in 18 C., I. 98. There were several very handsome flowered silks shaded like embroidery.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 172. The three gates of the church are chequered with red and white polished stones, embossed and elegantly flowered.
1812–6. J. Smith, The Panorama of Science and Art, I. 151. Some of the later perpendicular buildings have much less flowered carvings, yet look overloaded with ornaments, from the fatiguing recurrence of minute parts, which prevent the general design being comprehended.
1825. Hone, Every-day Bk., I. 967. Bird wore one of those flowered Indian gowns, formerly in use with schoolmasters.
b. Flowered silver: see quot. 1086.
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 used in the ingot currency of Independent Burma…. The English 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.
