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Meanings of flowery in English

Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details.

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Usage of flowery in English
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Existing plants and animals had to adapt, filling the flowery new niches.
Wired
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He lived in a beautiful palace in the midst of flowery gardens.
Fifty Famous Stories Retold
3
Others were wedded with different rites; without the stone and flowery gyves.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
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All had been wrapped in flowery pastel wrapping paper and cutely beribboned.
The Big U
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It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry.
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
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The handwriting flows and moves with feminine curlicues and flowery exclamation points.
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Reporters on general work do not sleep on flowery beds of ease.
The Making of an American
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And Sarah Jane in her honesty and simplicity repeated that flowery name.
Young Lucretia and Other Stories
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It was in a woman's flowery hand, one that looked strangely familiar.
Tell me, pretty maiden
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Marques Toliver's back-story reads like the work of a flowery fiction writer.
The Irish Times
11
They are flowery always, whether in greeting, praise, commendation, or in denunciation.
Argentina from a British Point of View, and Notes on Argentine L...
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The answers came back not by fax but in blue flowery biro.
The Guardian
13
His flowery scent slammed into my sinuses like hot water, drowning me.
Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
14
Another month and the flowery, bowery little suburb knew him no more.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
15
Senator Burton bowed, a little awkwardly, in response to this flowery sentiment.
The End of Her Honeymoon
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Black tea should be dark coloured and have a fragrant flowery smell.
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Flowery across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common