flowerage

[ flou-er-ij ]

noun

1. the process or state of flowering. flower.

flowerage

/ ˈflaʊərɪdʒ /

noun

1. a mass of flowers
2. the process or act of flowering

Word History and Origins

Origin of flowerage¹

First recorded in 1680–90; flower + -age

Example Sentences

There, I wot, hid amorous Pan, For a sudden pleading ran Through the maze of myrtle, Whiles a rapid violence tossed All its flowerage,—'twas the lost Cooings of a turtle.

From Project Gutenberg

He, like gunpowder, cooling on the tongue, and singeing and shattering when greed kindled him, placed himself at a considerable darting-distance from her, threw a painter's eye at the charming waves and bendings of her tempest-struck flowerage, and said quietly, with that mildness which resembles the eating and devouring milk of spunges: "Only be calm, fairest; it is I still; and what would it all avail thee, child?"

From Project Gutenberg

He shut himself up four days with the blind one in the house of death;–he saw no one,–did not visit the mourning convent, where from all fair eyes flowed similar tears,–renounced the fragrant park and the blue sky,–and let the flowerage of the departed one fade after him.–He consoled the forsaken blind one, and all day long they rested in each other's embrace, and pictured to each other weeping their teacher and his teachings and the radiant hours of their childhood.

From Project Gutenberg

When the weeds are once withered or uprooted, then will the nobler flowerage spontaneously and vigorously spring up.–The virtuous heart, like the body, grows sound and strong more by work than by good food.

From Project Gutenberg

Fortunately this nut-tree, which threw an unwholesome, frosty nut-shadow on the whole flowerage of love and poetry, soon transplanted itself back again among more congenial guests.

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