florilegium

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  1. noun A collection of excerpts from written texts, especially works of literature.

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  • All others of whatever occupation shall, (dressed) in blue, violet and musterdevillers, shall meet our sovereign lord on foot at St. James 'church. http: / / trytel. com / ~tristan / towns / florilegium / community / cmevnt11. html arby said: —  Errata: The Wordie Blog
  • This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic, —  Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
  • _florilegium_. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
 

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  1. New Latin flōrilegium, flower-gathering (translation of Greek anthologion, flower-gathering, anthology), from Latin flōrilegus, gathering flowers : flōs, flōr-, flower; see flower + legere, to gather; see leg- in Indo-European roots.
 

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/floʊrɪˈlidʒiəm/
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