Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The culling of flowers.
- n. An anthology.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of gathering flowers.
Examples
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘florilege’.
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delightful descriptors
petrichor, omphaloskepsis, ouroboros, oneiric, flaneur, saunter, dishabituation, fractalization, eudemony, phosphorescence, holographic, umwelt and 136 more...
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
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sesquipidalian
words new to me
spicilege, eloge, rhapsode, florilege, oculus, redivivus, cantus, sharawaggi
Tweets
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stevebucknell An anthology of songs or poems. May 31, 2010
whichbe The act of gathering flowers. Nov 17, 2008