flowerage
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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
When the weeds are once withered or uprooted, then will the nobler flowerage spontaneously and vigorously spring up.–The virtuous heart, like the body, grows sound and strong more by work than by good food.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
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
Yet, thanks to Nature, who sends her leafage and flowerage up through all kinds of débris, and who takes a blossomy possession of ruined walls and desert places, it is never altogether dead!
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
