florilegium

American  

[flawr-uh-lee-jee-uhm, flohr-] / ˌflɔr əˈli dʒi əm, ˌfloʊr- /

noun

plural

florilegia

1. a collection of literary pieces; anthology.

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florilegium British  

/ ˌflɔːrɪˈliːdʒɪəm /

noun

1. (formerly) a lavishly illustrated book on flowers

2. 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

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

Look through the dictionary, and cull out a florilegium, rival the tulippomania.

From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William

This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic, a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

From Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Vaknin, Samuel

We cannot, however, afford space here for a florilegium Yankyense.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston