florilegium
Americannoun
noun
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(formerly) a lavishly illustrated book on flowers
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rare an anthology
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Etymology
Origin of florilegium
1640–50; < New Latin flōrilegium, equivalent to Latin flōri- flori- + leg ( ere ) to gather + -ium -ium, on the model of spīcilegium gleaning; a calque of Greek anthología anthology
Example Sentences
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It is a florilegium of invented academic articles, desert travelogues, music criticism, and miniature biographies of real and imagined adventurers, from a femme-fatale hotelier in Palmyra to a French researcher seduced by the Iranian Revolution.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018
Its inaugural show, American Women Artists 1830-1930, consisted mainly of loans; but even so, except for some paintings by Cecilia Beaux, Romaine Brooks and, of course, O'Keeffe, it was a dull florilegium of derivative kitsch.
From Time Magazine Archive
A choice of old authors should be a florilegium, and not a botanist's hortus siccus, to which grasses are as important as the single shy blossom of a summer.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various
Look through the dictionary, and cull out a florilegium, rival the tulippomania.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William
We cannot, however, afford space here for a florilegium Yankyense.
From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston
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