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 Literature
“Maybe,” she answered, playing with the tiny pink flowerets at the base of her collar.
From Literature
Amid the jungles of the East, Where gloomiest forms of sin are rife, Like flowerets in a desert drear, Her treasured ones had sprung to life.
From Project Gutenberg
By this time all the tiny yellow flowerets which make up the yellow cushion have bloomed.
From Project Gutenberg
"Some flowerets of Eden we still inherit Though the trail of the serpent is over them all."
From Project Gutenberg
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