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
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 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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
A stag sprang from the pasture at his call, And, kneeling, licked the withered hand, that tied A wreath of woodbine round his antlers tall, And hung his lofty neck with many a floweret small.
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James
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