Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The culling of flowers.
- noun An anthology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of gathering flowers.
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Examples
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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 Alice Morse Earle 1881
whichbe commented on the word florilege
The act of gathering flowers.
November 18, 2008
stevebucknell commented on the word florilege
An anthology of songs or poems.
May 31, 2010