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
Place a floweret of cauliflower on the top of the pyramid.
From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald
A poet of our age has said that in the meanest floweret we may find "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."
From Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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
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
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