immortellen.

/ɪmɔːˈtɛl/

Etymology: French (short for fleur immortelle ), feminine of immortel immortal adj. and n.

A name for various composite flowers of papery texture (esp. Helichrysum orientale, and other species of Helichrysum, Xeranthemum, etc.) which retain their colour after being dried: = everlasting n. 2. Also attributive and in other combinations, transferred, and figurative.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > everlasting or immortelle

yellow amaranth1551

gold-flower1578

mothwort1578

God's flower1597

golden cudweed1597

golden mothwort1597

moth-weed1597

aurelia1598

everlasting flower1610

everlasting1633

helichrysum1664

yellowheads1712

immortal herb1731

xeranthemum1736

eternal flower1785

immortelle1832

strawflower1924

1832 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada (1836) iv. 45 The white love-everlasting, the same that the chaplets are made of by the French and Swiss girls to adorn the tombs of their friends, and which they call immortelle; the Americans call it life-everlasting.

1838 J. Pardoe River & Desart II. 17 A tall black cross, crowned with immortelles.

1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands ix. 139 Cliffs..covered..with a beautiful bright lavender-coloured immortelle.

1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlii. 431 A milder form of sorrow finds its inexpensive and lasting remembrancer in the coarse and ugly but indestructible ‘immortelle’—which is a wreath or cross or some such emblem, made of rosettes of black linen, with sometimes a yellow rosette at the conjunction of the cross's bars,—kind of sorrowful breast-pin, so to say.

1890 A. Martin Home Life Ostrich Farm i. 21 Pink and white immortelles, gladioli, ixias, and irises of all kinds abound.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 6 Anyhow I offer a bunch of pansies, not a wreath of immortelles. I don't want everlasting flowers.

1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. 935/1 Poor little immortelles surviving from that old gorgeous efflorescence of linguistic misuse.

1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 67/2 Blaublümchenmuster, (German) blue flower pattern: ‘aster’ or ‘immortelle’ pattern.

1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 239/2 Early [Klösterle] wares were decorated in blue with popular Meissen ‘Immortelle’ and ‘bird on rock’ designs.

1963 V. Nabokov Gift iii. 153 Even if he had put on the light the immortelle-like yellowness of daytime electricity would have been no help at all.

1968 E. Lovelace Schoolmaster i. 7 The immortelle holds its scarlet blossoms still.

1970 New Yorker 22 Aug. 38/3 The old man was himself like a trophy of immortelles.

1971 E. M. Roach in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. 22 The giant immortelles Splash fire on the hills.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	immortelle
释义	immortellen. /ɪmɔːˈtɛl/ Etymology: French (short for fleur immortelle ), feminine of immortel immortal adj. and n. A name for various composite flowers of papery texture (esp. Helichrysum orientale, and other species of Helichrysum, Xeranthemum, etc.) which retain their colour after being dried: = everlasting n. 2. Also attributive and in other combinations, transferred, and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > everlasting or immortelle yellow amaranth1551 gold-flower1578 mothwort1578 God's flower1597 golden cudweed1597 golden mothwort1597 moth-weed1597 aurelia1598 everlasting flower1610 everlasting1633 helichrysum1664 yellowheads1712 immortal herb1731 xeranthemum1736 eternal flower1785 immortelle1832 strawflower1924 1832 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada (1836) iv. 45 The white love-everlasting, the same that the chaplets are made of by the French and Swiss girls to adorn the tombs of their friends, and which they call immortelle; the Americans call it life-everlasting. 1838 J. Pardoe River & Desart II. 17 A tall black cross, crowned with immortelles. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands ix. 139 Cliffs..covered..with a beautiful bright lavender-coloured immortelle. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlii. 431 A milder form of sorrow finds its inexpensive and lasting remembrancer in the coarse and ugly but indestructible ‘immortelle’—which is a wreath or cross or some such emblem, made of rosettes of black linen, with sometimes a yellow rosette at the conjunction of the cross's bars,—kind of sorrowful breast-pin, so to say. 1890 A. Martin Home Life Ostrich Farm i. 21 Pink and white immortelles, gladioli, ixias, and irises of all kinds abound. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 6 Anyhow I offer a bunch of pansies, not a wreath of immortelles. I don't want everlasting flowers. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. 935/1 Poor little immortelles surviving from that old gorgeous efflorescence of linguistic misuse. 1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 67/2 Blaublümchenmuster, (German) blue flower pattern: ‘aster’ or ‘immortelle’ pattern. 1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 239/2 Early [Klösterle] wares were decorated in blue with popular Meissen ‘Immortelle’ and ‘bird on rock’ designs. 1963 V. Nabokov Gift iii. 153 Even if he had put on the light the immortelle-like yellowness of daytime electricity would have been no help at all. 1968 E. Lovelace Schoolmaster i. 7 The immortelle holds its scarlet blossoms still. 1970 New Yorker 22 Aug. 38/3 The old man was himself like a trophy of immortelles. 1971 E. M. Roach in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. 22 The giant immortelles Splash fire on the hills. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1832
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