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‖ millefleurs|milflœr|
Also millefleur.
[F.; in sense 1 f. eau de millefleurs, lit. ‘water of a thousand flowers’.]
a. A perfume distilled from flowers of different kinds.
a1850J. Atkinson in A. Davis Package & Print (1967) plate 8 (Advt.), Essence of Millefleur, Bouquet, Marechalle. 1854Thackeray Newcomes v, When you appeared in your neat pulpit with your fragrant pocket-handkerchief (and your sermon likewise all millefleurs). 1868M. E. Braddon Dead Sea Fr. iii, The letters exhaled a faint odour of millefleurs.
b. (Freq. hyphenated or written as two words.) A pattern of flowers and leaves used for tapestry, porcelain, etc. Usu. attrib.
1908J. F. Blacker Chats on Oriental China x. 123 The colour is not nearly as brilliant as in the ‘mille fleurs’ class, though the same wavy porcelain is to be noted. 1933Burlington Mag. July 35/1 The style of the tapestry..the particular type of mille fleurs pattern. 1933New Statesman 14 Oct. 444/1 The two mille fleur boots, entirely encrusted with sharp microscopic forget-me-nots. 1938Burlington Mag. June p. xxix/1 The fifteenth century French armorial tapestry with its typical mille-fleurs decoration of varied flowers and leafwork on the coveted red ground. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 183/2 Mille fleurs, decoration occurring on Chinese porcelain with panels of growing plants reserved on a flower-covered ground. 1970Centennial Acquisitions Mus. Fine Arts Boston 57 (caption) The relatively small size of this mille⁓fleurs..tapestry suggests that it may be part of a larger hanging. |