immortelle

American  

[im-awr-tel] / ˌɪm ɔrˈtɛl /

noun

1. an everlasting plant or flower, especially Xeranthemum annuum.

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immortelle British  

/ ˌɪmɔːˈtɛl /

noun

1. Also called: everlasting, everlasting flower. any of various plants, mostly of the family Asteraceae (composites), that retain their colour when dried, esp Xeranthemum annuum

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Etymology

Origin of immortelle

1825–35; < French, noun use of feminine of immortel immortal; see -elle

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Example Sentences

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immortelle

And there was the flower known as immortelle, which forms “middle notes,” whose scent remain after the first vanish.

From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

In the end, however, he realizes that what has sustained him all along are the "immortelle" and "wild mammy-apple" of his "generous Eden."

From Time Magazine Archive

He was in bridegroom's habit, and he offered a bouquet of graveyard-flowers—the white immortelle and the forget-me-not.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various

There are many flowers of time, we know, which cannot be transplanted; but "love never faileth," love is the true immortelle.

From The Teaching of Jesus by George Jackson

They change color when a person comes along and hangs up an immortelle; but that is nothing: any right-feeling reptile would do that.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. by Mark Twain

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