flowerage
Americannoun
noun
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a mass of flowers
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the process or act of flowering
Etymology
Origin of flowerage
Example Sentences
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And something embryonic in John Bulmer seemed to come, with the knave's benediction, into flowerage.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Urns on corner walls, pilasters, circular windows, flowerage and loggia.
From A Mere Accident by George (George Augustus) Moore
"Roe, fox and hare hold revel all, Thro' flowerage the wee worm glances; There great and small a-dancing fall And the sun up in Heaven dances."
From The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories by Carl Ewald
The stems are particularly full and smooth, and the heads of the best of them rustle back with a profusion of flaxen flowerage, remarkably agreeable to the touch.
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse
What an exhaustless wealth does there lie in even the humblest fruitage and flowerage of language, and what a fecundity have even dry 'roots'!
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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