floweret
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of floweret
1350–1400; Middle English, variant of floret
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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
The French call this floweret "Marguerite," and they know that Marguerite can prophecy, when lovers pluck off its leaves, and ask of every leaf they pluck some question concerning their lovers.
From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken
So hath a floweret from your pathway faded; A bright star shining o’er you set in gloom; Bright rays of hope are from your vision shaded By the dark curtain of the silent tomb.
From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Rebekah Smith
Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
Who should love thee, my floweret, if not thine own mother?
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
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