flowerage

American  

[flou-er-ij] / ˈflaʊ ər ɪdʒ /

noun

1. the process or state of flowering. flower.

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flowerage British  

/ ˈflaʊərɪdʒ /

noun

1. a mass of flowers

2. the process or act of flowering

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Etymology

Origin of flowerage

First recorded in 1680–90; flower + -age

Example Sentences

When the weeds are once withered or uprooted, then will the nobler flowerage spontaneously and vigorously spring up.–The virtuous heart, like the body, grows sound and strong more by work than by good food.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

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 Gosse, Edmund

Still deeper and dimmer And goodlier they glow For the eyes of the swimmer Who scans them below As he crosses the zone of their flowerage that knows not of sunshine and snow.

From Studies in Song by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

And something embryonic in John Bulmer seemed to come, with the knave's benediction, into flowerage.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

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