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millefleur
[ meel-flur, -floor; French meel-flœr ]
adjective
- having a background sprinkled with representations of flowers, as certain tapestries or pieces of glasswork.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of millefleur1
1905–10; < French mille fleurs literally, thousand flowers; millefiori
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Example Sentences
He has taken Rottenbottom and Millefleur, and is going pretty well into cotton.
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They both got in, and just as it was driving away, Millefleur ran up to it.
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Delamere arose early, and calling for Millefleur, enquired at what hour Miss Mowbray was to go.
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His fever encreased; after I left him in the evening, he grew delirious; and Millefleur, terrified, came to call me to him.
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The opera is a rare luxury now, and la Millefleur is all the fashion.
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