rare. [f. prec. + -MENT.] A strewing about or over.
1833. Blackw. Mag., XXXIII. 137. From beneath all their sweet and sad bestrewments she who is their sister revives. Ibid. (1845), LVII. 526. The call for the bestrewment of flowers.
1875. Daily Even. Express (L.A.), 21 July, 2/2. There are generally to be found lying around the wrecks of many overturned political apple-carts and a plentiful bestrewment of played-out politicians.
