millefleurs

An odour of millefleurs rustled by them as Charles Honeyman accompanied by his ecclesiastical valet, passed the pew from the vestry, and took his place at the desk.

The Newcomes 2006

"His _millefleurs_ is at all events uncommonly like a muskrat," said Salisbury.

Louis' School Days A Story for Boys

All the way up the staircase in the house of tapestries are dainty bits of _millefleurs_, that Gothic invention for transferring a block of the spring woods from under the trees into a man-made edifice.

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905

French toupets, a thin wrinkled painted face, and emitting with every movement a prodigious odour of millefleurs.

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899

Serbelloni; -- the green blue of the waters, clear as glass, opaque through depth; the _millefleurs_ roses clambering into cypresses by Cadenabbia; the laburnums hanging their yellow clusters from the clefts of Sasso Eancio; the oleander arcades of Varenna; the wild white limestone crags of San Martiuo, which he has climbed to feast his eyes with the perspective, magical, serene, Lionardesquely perfect, of the distant gates of Adda.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Serbelloni; -- the green blue of the waters, clear as glass, opaque through depth; the _millefleurs_ roses clambering into cypresses by Cadenabbia; the laburnums hanging their yellow clusters from the clefts of Sasso Eancio; the oleander arcades of Varenna; the wild white limestone crags of San Martiuo, which he has climbed to feast his eyes with the perspective, magical, serene, Lionardesquely perfect, of the distant gates of Adda.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

The original "lavender aux millefleurs" is that of Delcroix; its peculiar odor is due to the French otto of lavender, which, although some folks like it, is very inferior to the English otto of lavender; hence the formula first given is far superior to that by the inventor, and has almost superseded the original preparations.

The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851

Why, love is the great magician of the universe, the sun of our minds, a path of fragrant violets, a perfect copse of _millefleurs_, before which we all bend our hearts, aye, and, with vastly few exceptions, our heads too.

Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840

Poor bewildered Honeyman! it was a sad day for you, when you appeared in your neat pulpit with your fragrant pocket-handkerchief (and your sermon likewise all millefleurs), in a trim, prim, freshly mangled surplice, which you thought became you!

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

An odour of millefleurs rustled by them as Charles Honeyman accompanied by his ecclesiastical valet, passed the pew from the vestry, and took his place at the desk.

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837