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
Place a floweret of cauliflower on the top of the pyramid.
From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary
A floweret, withered, odorless, In a book forgot I find; And already strange reflection Cometh into my mind.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan
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
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
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