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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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
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
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
"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
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
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