| 释义 |
flowerage|ˈflaʊərɪdʒ|
[f. flower n. and v. + -age1. Cf. OF. fleurage.]
†1. (See quot.) Obs.
1688R. Holme Armoury, ii. 115/2 Flowerage is the setting of sorts of Flower together, in husks, and so to hang them up with strings [Hence 1706 in Phillips (ed. Kersey); and in later Dicts.].
2. a. Flowers collectively, blossom; a display or assemblage of flowers; floral ornament or decoration. lit. and fig. b. The process of flowering; the result of this process. lit. and fig.
1831J. Wilson Unimore vi. 9 Never..the goats..On such profusion of wild flowerage browsed. 1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1858) 261 This glorious Elizabethan Era with its Shakspeare, as the outcome and flowerage of all which had preceded it. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 203 The flowerage That stood from out a rich brocade. 1880Swinburne Stud. in Song 78 The zone of their flowerage [sea-weed] that knows not of sunshine and snow. 1887W. Pater Imag. Portraits iv. 144 A wonderful flowerage of architectural fancy..passed over and beyond the earlier fabric. |