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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THINGAMABOB OR THINGUMMY: CAN YOU DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE US AND UK TERMS IN THIS QUIZ?

Do you know the difference between everyday US and UK terminology? Test yourself with this quiz on words that differ across the Atlantic.

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In the UK, COTTON CANDY is more commonly known as…

Origin of millefleur

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

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