flowerage
Example Sentences
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The stems are particularly full and smooth, and the heads of the best of them rustle back with a profusion of flaxen flowerage, remarkably agreeable to the touch.
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse
It was rather the genius of the age and nation springing into flowerage through him,—a flowerage all the larger and more eloquent for the long delay, and the vast accumulation of force.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
And something embryonic in John Bulmer seemed to come, with the knave's benediction, into flowerage.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Fortunately this nut-tree, which threw an unwholesome, frosty nut-shadow on the whole flowerage of love and poetry, soon transplanted itself back again among more congenial guests.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
What an exhaustless wealth does there lie in even the humblest fruitage and flowerage of language, and what a fecundity have even dry 'roots'!
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
