flowerage

American  

[flou-er-ij] / ˈflaʊ ər ɪdʒ /

noun

1. the process or state of flowering. flower.

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flowerage British  

/ ˈflaʊərɪdʒ /

noun

1. a mass of flowers

2. the process or act of flowering

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Etymology

Origin of flowerage

First recorded in 1680–90; flower + -age

Example Sentences

It was rather the genius of the age and nation springing into flowerage through him,—a flowerage all the larger and more eloquent for the long delay, and the vast accumulation of force.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

The stems are particularly full and smooth, and the heads of the best of them rustle back with a profusion of flaxen flowerage, remarkably agreeable to the touch.

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund

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

"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

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