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
The Earl.—I know a floweret passing fair, And for its loss I pain me; Fain would I hence to seek its lair, But for these bonds that chain me.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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 Heine, Heinrich
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
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 Conrad, Robert Taylor
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