flowerage
Americannoun
noun
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a mass of flowers
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the process or act of flowering
Etymology
Origin of flowerage
Example Sentences
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But we must not grudge him a slumber or a sleep among the saughs, lulled by the murmur of millions of humble-bees—we speak within bounds—on their honied flowerage.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
What an exhaustless wealth does there lie in even the humblest fruitage and flowerage of language, and what a fecundity have even dry 'roots'!
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
And something embryonic in John Bulmer seemed to come, with the knave's benediction, into flowerage.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch
When the weeds are once withered or uprooted, then will the nobler flowerage spontaneously and vigorously spring up.–The virtuous heart, like the body, grows sound and strong more by work than by good food.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
Urns on corner walls, pilasters, circular windows, flowerage and loggia.
From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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