Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ornamental art, a conventional flower or a small object, as one link or member of a bracelet, necklace, or the like, which has a somewhat floral shape.
  • noun In architecture, a floral ornament; specifically, the large conventional flower usually placed in the center of the abacus of a Corinthian capital or classic ceiling-caisson; also, the floreated termination of a Gothic finial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A flower-shaped ornament, esp. one terminating an object or forming one of a series, as a knob of a cover to a dish, or a flower-shaped part in a necklace.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun an ornament or knob in the shape of a flower
  • noun architecture the small flower at the centre of each side of a Corinthian abacus; a flos

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  • "She who knew neither past nor future, who had neither a tomorrow nor memories, had been obliged without warning to come here, to follow this grand deviation of the arrow of time—the most beautiful fleuron of occidental decadence."

    - Savage by Jacques Jouet, translated by Amber Shields, p 36 of the Dalkey Archive paperback edition

    October 12, 2012

  • ❧     
    so is the word of the day 'fleuron' or 'undefined'?
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    May 6, 2015

  • Whoops, misnamed field! Fixed. :-)

    May 6, 2015

  • He’ll want your opinion, you know,

    And his tastes are quite rococo,

    So politely demur on

    The uses of fleuron

    And try to ignore the furbelow.

    May 6, 2015