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 Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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
Life let us cherish While yet the taper glows, And the fresh floweret Pluck ere it close.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
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
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