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
Fair, as the floweret opening on the morn, Whose leaves bright drops of liquid pearl adorn!
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, 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
The freshest drops will Beauty choose To keep her floweret wet, The purest dews, to save its hues— Her gentle violet.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
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