Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To flower out; blossom.
- To decorate with flower-patterns.
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Examples
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Hers was a character which would never floreate into irregular beauties to give her friends anxiety and crowd her life with embarrassing consequences.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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To right and left of it a floreate company of books in high cases paraded shoulder to shoulder, without
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868
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To right and left of it a floreate company of books in high cases paraded shoulder to shoulder, without a gap; grenadiers on the line.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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To right and left of it a floreate company of books in high cases paraded shoulder to shoulder, without a gap; grenadiers on the line.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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Mr. Glass I found an exceedingly neat, well-educated M’pongwe gentleman in irreproachable English garments, and with irreproachable, but slightly floreate, English language.
ruzuzu commented on the word floreate
"1. To flower out; blossom.
2. To decorate with flower-patterns."
--Cent. Dict.
May 25, 2011