Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several coral trees, especially Erythrina fusca or E. poeppigiana.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of the flowers commonly called
everlasting , or a wreath made of such flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of
Antennaria ,Helichrysum ,Gomphrena , etc. Seeeverlasting .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various papery
flowers , often dried and used as decoration.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A milder form of sorrow finds its inexpensive and lasting remembrancer in the coarse and ugly but indestructible 'immortelle' -- which is a wreath or cross or some such emblem, made of rosettes of black linen, with sometimes a yellow rosette at the conjunction of the cross's bars -- kind of sorrowful breast-pin, so to say.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872
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A milder form of sorrow finds its inexpensive and lasting remembrancer in the coarse and ugly but indestructible 'immortelle' -- which is a wreath or cross or some such emblem, made of rosettes of black linen, with sometimes a yellow rosette at the conjunction of the cross's bars -- kind of sorrowful breast-pin, so to say.
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872
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A milder form of sorrow finds its inexpensive and lasting remembrancer in the coarse and ugly but indestructible 'immortelle' -- which is a wreath or cross or some such emblem, made of rosettes of black linen, with sometimes a yellow rosette at the conjunction of the cross's bars -- kind of sorrowful breast-pin, so to say.
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As I wore it, what I later came to know as immortelle became bewitching: alternating between toasty caramel and deep, peaty smoky scotch.
Archive 2007-04-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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The pumpkin is discernible and fleshy and the immortelle is a whisper.
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Delicately and gradually its pressed petals expanded, .. its golden corolla brightened in hue, .. a subtle, sweet odor permeated the air, .. and soon the angelic "immortelle" of the Field of Ardath shone wondrously as a white star in the quiet room.
Ardath Marie Corelli 1889
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What isn't listed is immortelle, but if it's not in there then the clove, patch and vanilla serve to do a damned fine imitation.
Washington Tremlett Clove Absolute: Perfume Review Marina Geigert 2009
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What isn't listed is immortelle, but if it's not in there then the clove, patch and vanilla serve to do a damned fine imitation.
Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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For the phobic this doesn't translate to Sables, who some find life-threateningly cloying- the imitation immortelle along with the thoroughgoing clove just makes one want to lean in and sniff.
Washington Tremlett Clove Absolute: Perfume Review Marina Geigert 2009
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For the phobic this doesn't translate to Sables, who some find life-threateningly cloying- the imitation immortelle along with the thoroughgoing clove just makes one want to lean in and sniff.
Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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