millefleur

[ meel-flur, -floor; French meel-flœr ]

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adjective

having a background sprinkled with representations of flowers, as certain tapestries or pieces of glasswork.

1905–10; < French mille fleurs literally, thousand flowers; millefiori

He has taken Rottenbottom and Millefleur, and is going pretty well into cotton.

They both got in, and just as it was driving away, Millefleur ran up to it.

Delamere arose early, and calling for Millefleur, enquired at what hour Miss Mowbray was to go.

His fever encreased; after I left him in the evening, he grew delirious; and Millefleur, terrified, came to call me to him.

The opera is a rare luxury now, and la Millefleur is all the fashion.

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