floweret
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of floweret
1350–1400; Middle English, variant of floret
Example Sentences
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My Spring is gone, however, but it has left me that French floweret on my hands, which, in some moods, I would fain be rid of.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Not a floweret fadeth, Not a star grows dim, Not a cloud o'ershadeth, But 'tis marked by him.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James
Risen from his thorny bed of pain— "The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise."
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel
Then would I pluck a floweret from my tress And beat thee till I forced thee to confess, While in my play the falling leaves would cover The eyes—the bright eyes—of my captive lover.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
When a blue floweret by that spot She plucks, and says—FORGET-ME-NOT, I feel it here in bondage.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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