Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
flayer .
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Examples
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*Whilzt droppin flawer pettals, white chawklit shavins an spinnin in sercals to distrakt teh cheezberger troll.
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"Storms, commonly called Michaelmas flawers, at that time of the year make sailing...dangerous." --Stackhouse, New History of the Holy Bible..., 1767, VI:417, note.
"We have upon our Coast in England a Michaelmas flaw, that seldom fails." John Josselyn, An Account of the Voyages to New England, 1674, p.54.
December 6, 2012