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flowery Adjective 1. decorated with flowers or floral patterns 2. (of language or style) containing elaborate literary expressions floweriness n
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flowery adjective 1. floral, flower-patterned adjective 2. ornate, fancy, rhetorical, high-flown, embellished, figurative, florid, overwrought, euphuistic, baroque << OPPOSITE plain How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Last eve in dreams, I saw thee stand, Like queenly nymphs from Fairy-land-- Enchantress of the flowery wand, Most beauteous Isadore! These are the times, when in his whale-boat the rover softly feels a certain filial, confident, land-like feeling towards the sea; that he regards it as so much flowery earth; and the distant ship revealing only the tops of her masts, seems struggling forward, not though high rolling waves, but through the tall grass of a rolling prairie: as when the western emigrants' horses only show their erected ears, while their hidden bodies widely wade through the amazing verdure. Where this green and flowery splendor terminated, the shaft of the Maypole was stained with the seven brilliant hues of the banner at its top. |
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