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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The culling of flowers.
  2. n. An anthology.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of gathering flowers.

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  • “It would perhaps be neither just nor conducive to proper judgment to gather only a florilege of noble verses from Sternhold and Hopkins 'Version and point out none of the "weedy-trophies," the quaint and even uncouth lines which disfigure the work.”

    Sabbath in Puritan New England

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  • stevebucknell An anthology of songs or poems. May 31, 2010

  • whichbe The act of gathering flowers. Nov 17, 2008

‘florilege’ has been looked up 450 times, added to 3 lists, commented on 3 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.