floweret
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English flourette,[1] from Old French florete.[2] By surface analysis, flower + -et; compare flowerlet. Doublet of fleuret and floret.
Noun
[edit]floweret (plural flowerets)
- A floret, or small or component flower
- c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- No more ſhall trenching war channel her fields, / Nor bruiſe her flourets with the armed hoofes / Of hoſtile paces: […]
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 46, column 1:
- No more ſhall trenching Warre channell her fields, / Nor bruiſe her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes / Of hoſtile paces.
- 1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828)[1]:
- And, hark! she whispers in the zephyr's voice, Lift up thy head, fair floweret, and rejoice!
- 1879, James Stevenson, Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879[2]:
- Handsome piece, with floweret at the apex, scrolls on the side, and a scalloped band around the middle.
- 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California[3]:
- The domestic sheep, on the contrary, is only a fraction of an animal, a whole flock being required to form an individual, just as numerous flowerets are required to make one complete sunflower.
References
[edit]- ^ “floweret”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ “flǒuret, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.