floweret

English

Alternative forms

flowerette
flow'ret (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English flourette,[1] from Old French florete.[2] By surface analysis, flower +‎ -et; compare flowerlet. Doublet of fleuret and floret.

Noun

floweret (plural flowerets)

A floret, or small or component flower
- c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  No more ſhall trenching war channel her fields, / Nor bruiſe her flourets with the armed hoofes / Of hoſtile paces: […]
  - c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 46, column 1:
    No more ſhall trenching Warre channell her fields, / Nor bruiſe her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes / Of hoſtile paces.
- 1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828)‎:
  And, hark! she whispers in the zephyr's voice, Lift up thy head, fair floweret, and rejoice!
- 1879, James Stevenson, Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879‎:
  Handsome piece, with floweret at the apex, scrolls on the side, and a scalloped band around the middle.
- 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California‎:
  The domestic sheep, on the contrary, is only a fraction of an animal, a whole flock being required to form an individual, just as numerous flowerets are required to make one complete sunflower.

References

“floweret”, in Collins English Dictionary.
“flǒuret, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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