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
Risen from his thorny bed of pain— "The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise."
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel
Each must have full space to display every tiny floweret, and not to hide the golden glory beneath.
From Upon The Tree-Tops by Miller, Olive Thorne
Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
Where'er I turn, some youthful form, Like floweret broken by the storm, Appeals to me in sad array, And bids me yet a moment stay.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
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