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  • noun Plural form of immortelle.

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Examples

  • The wheat-sheaf represents our elderly grudge; but the immortelles are the everlasting flowers of good will that spring from the planting of these two.

    Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • He gazed restlessly at the crosses and the urns, the angels, the "immortelles," the flowers, gaudy or withering; and suddenly he noticed a spot which seemed so different from anything else up there that he was obliged to walk the few necessary yards and look at it.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

  • He gazed restlessly at the crosses and the urns, the angels, the "immortelles," the flowers, gaudy or withering; and suddenly he noticed a spot which seemed so different from anything else up there that he was obliged to walk the few necessary yards and look at it.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • He gazed restlessly at the crosses and the urns, the angels, the "immortelles," the flowers, gaudy or withering; and suddenly he noticed a spot which seemed so different from anything else up there that he was obliged to walk the few necessary yards and look at it.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • a hard-fought battlefield, performed the last sad rites, and with their own hands filled his grave and planted upon it the "immortelles" of their affection and devotion.

    Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session Various

  • A wreath of immortelles under a glass dome had thus attracted them; and, drawing near, I overheard their judgment on that wonder.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • As they came down they neared a grave, where some pious friend or relative had laid a wreath of immortelles, and put a bell glass over it, as is the custom.

    Lay Morals 2005

  • He gazed restlessly at the crosses and the urns, the angels, the “immortelles,” the flowers, gaudy or withering; and suddenly he noticed a spot which seemed so different from anything else up there that he was obliged to walk the few necessary yards and look at it.

    To Let 2004

  • The wine that she had given to John in the castle of the goblins, the bouquet of immortelles, and the scarf, all had the power of producing sleep like death.

    The Green Fairy Book 2003

  • Inside sat John, clad in blue velvet, with a bouquet of immortelles in his hand and a scarf bound round his arm.

    The Green Fairy Book 2003

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