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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Still deeper and dimmer And goodlier they glow For the eyes of the swimmer Who scans them below As he crosses the zone of their flowerage that knows not of sunshine and snow.
From Studies in Song by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Yet, thanks to Nature, who sends her leafage and flowerage up through all kinds of débris, and who takes a blossomy possession of ruined walls and desert places, it is never altogether dead!
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander
"Roe, fox and hare hold revel all, Thro' flowerage the wee worm glances; There great and small a-dancing fall And the sun up in Heaven dances."
From The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories by Ewald, Carl
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
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
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