floweret
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of floweret
1350–1400; Middle English, variant of floret
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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
Then would I pluck a floweret from my tress And beat thee till I forced thee to confess, While in my play the falling leaves would cover The eyes—the bright eyes—of my captive lover.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
Sometimes they resemble a floweret that grows on a rocky crag, then again a ray of moonlight trembling over a restless sea.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
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 Robert Taylor Conrad
So may the stream of Life’s long dream Flow gently onward to its end, With many a floweret gay, Adown its billowy way: May no sigh vex nor care perplex My loving little Friend!
From Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life by Belle Moses
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