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
Who should love thee, my floweret, if not thine own mother?
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
In her hair was a spray of diamonds, mounted to look like a single stalk of lilies of the valley, each jewel hanging from the slender stem like a tiny floweret.
From The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade by Laura Dent Crane
A fourth says, "White floweret, before thy door I make a great weeping."
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Thro' Syrian plains curtained with curling mist The grass she trailed, Where the shy floweret; by the dew-drop kissed, Sweet blushing quailed; And drowned in purple vales of amethyst The moon-mad bulbuls wailed.
From Blooms of the Berry by Madison J. Cawein
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