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
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
Though bush or floweret never grow My dark unwarming shade below; Nor summer bud perfume the dew, Of rosy blush, or yellow hue!
From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by Richardson, John Purver
If the lithe spirit of the girl bends under the grave teachings of the Doctor, it bends with a charming grace, and rises again smilingly, when sober speech is done, like the floweret she is.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
A floweret, withered, odorless, In a book forgot I find; And already strange reflection Cometh into my mind.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan
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