flowerage

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And something embryonic in John Bulmer seemed to come, with the knave's benediction, into flowerage.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

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 Gosse, Edmund

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

Still deeper and dimmer And goodlier they glow For the eyes of the swimmer Who scans them below As he crosses the zone of their flowerage that knows not of sunshine and snow.

From Studies in Song by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

"Roe, fox and hare hold revel all, Thro' flowerage the wee worm glances; There great and small a-dancing fall And the sun up in Heaven dances."

From The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories by Ewald, Carl