flowerlike
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flowerlike
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Meanwhile, Lord Grigon’s dastardly hobby is skeet-shooting fragile, flowerlike critters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
“This elegantly structured book contains a long poem in 14 sections, ‘Scheherazade/Scheherazade,’ with the first seven early in the book and the last seven later, a flowerlike symmetry.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
Among the standouts is a Susan Goldman monotype in which a flowerlike circular form is overlaid with nine squares of bright hues.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2016
Eventually Dior cultivated his groundbreaking Corolle collection, a line of extravagant, ultrafeminine, and flowerlike dresses that Harper’s Bazaar editor in chief Carmel Snow famously labeled the New Look.
From Architectural Digest ● Oct. 31, 2014
Thirty years ago Piccadilly in June was a vision of open carriages brilliant with flowerlike parasols, high-stepping horses, and coachmen, many of whom still wore wigs.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
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