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
A fourth says, "White floweret, before thy door I make a great weeping."
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
So hath a floweret from your pathway faded; A bright star shining o’er you set in gloom; Bright rays of hope are from your vision shaded By the dark curtain of the silent tomb.
From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah
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
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
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