flowerage
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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 Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich
Urns on corner walls, pilasters, circular windows, flowerage and loggia.
From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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
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
But we must not grudge him a slumber or a sleep among the saughs, lulled by the murmur of millions of humble-bees—we speak within bounds—on their honied flowerage.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
