Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. an ornament or knob in the shape of a flower
- n. architecture the small flower at the centre of each side of a Corinthian abacus; a flos
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
Examples
“How to write a fleuron character - useful for separating paragraphs of longhand”
“For my fellow traditionalists who still occasionally write letters and cards by hand from time to time, it can be useful to know how to write a fleuron.”
“The fleuron (or leaf) is a useful symbol for indicating a pause or change of thought.”
“So there you have it: the fleuron in three simple steps.”
How to write a fleuron character - useful for separating paragraphs of longhand
“Jon Aquino's Mental Garden: How to write a fleuron character - useful for separating paragraphs of longhand”
How to write a fleuron character - useful for separating paragraphs of longhand
“They tend to come in threes, though a single fleuron can be useful to indicate the beginning of a paragraph.”
“In 1942, he purchased half of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti from Jacques Chambon, and devoted himself to this domaine for the following 40 years, developing it into what is referred to by the international cognoscenti as the fleuron de la Bourgogne, or “the gem of Burgundy.””
“Evil, which would be the most useful fleuron of the Crown if it was effectual.”
“The tenth story is 17 feet in diameter, and, with the covering, 20 feet high, and the finishing on the top is 17 feet high; so that the whole structure, from the base to the top of the fleuron, is 163 feet.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828
“I suppose you do everything that is Royal except touching for the Evil, which would be the most useful fleuron of the Crown if it was effectual.”
Lists
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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Bushel
Heir to Beachcomb, words that I like.
http://wordie.org/lists/beachcombbushel, peck, kismet, hyperborean, votive, parsnip, murmuration, fleuron, gossamer, clementine, opal, dollop and 15 more...
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knitandpurl "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 Oct 12, 2012