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millefleur

[ meel-flur, -floor; French meel-flœr ]

/ milˈflɜr, -ˈflʊər; French milˈflœr /

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adjective

having a background sprinkled with representations of flowers, as certain tapestries or pieces of glasswork.

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Origin of millefleur

1905–10; <French mille fleurs literally, thousand flowers; cf. millefiori

Words nearby millefleur

Millecent, milled, Milledgeville, mille-feuille, millefiori, millefleur, millefleurs, millenarian, millenarianism, millenary, mill end

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How to use millefleur in a sentence

He has taken Rottenbottom and Millefleur, and is going pretty well into cotton.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, No. 22, January, 1873|Various
They both got in, and just as it was driving away, Millefleur ran up to it.
Emmeline|Charlotte Turner Smith
Delamere arose early, and calling for Millefleur, enquired at what hour Miss Mowbray was to go.
Emmeline|Charlotte Turner Smith
His fever encreased; after I left him in the evening, he grew delirious; and Millefleur, terrified, came to call me to him.
Emmeline|Charlotte Turner Smith

The opera is a rare luxury now, and la Millefleur is all the fashion.
Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters|May Agnes Fleming