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
Even the poor wee floweret fading in a cleft of the bank, which would show itself when spring began, fixed my attention and would draw my tears....
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Who should love thee, my floweret, if not thine own mother?
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
Place a floweret of cauliflower on the top of the pyramid.
From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald
Thro' Syrian plains curtained with curling mist The grass she trailed, Where the shy floweret; by the dew-drop kissed, Sweet blushing quailed; And drowned in purple vales of amethyst The moon-mad bulbuls wailed.
From Blooms of the Berry by Madison J. Cawein
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