Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flower, especially a carnation, having petals edged by a contrasting color.
- noun A contrasting edge on the petals of a flower.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a group of florists' varieties of the carnation, having petals with a white or yellow ground, marked at the outer margin only with red or other color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A variety of decorative
carnation .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I refer to them more often as “That great peachy one Jeri gave me” or “The deep red fellow with the gold picotee edge.”
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First she would put a leaf inside with a big violet lying on it, then she would put a very small white picotee, perhaps, on each side of the violet, and then she would sprinkle some lavender on the top, but not to cover their heads.
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Heddewigii; imperialis; laciniatus, Salmon Queen; plumarius; superbus, dwarf fl. pl.; picotee.
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Among those who remained faithful were Lord LAMBOURNE (in the Peers 'Gallery), who had for this occasion substituted a posy of primroses for his usual picotee, and, quaintly enough, Mr. HOGGE, who had not hitherto been suspected of Disraelian sympathies.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25 Various 1898
yarb commented on the word picotee
A silence followed before he came to the other side of her table and said, "Stop that noise. I want to speak to you." The gesture was rude, but it was picoteed with a faint edge of pitifulness.
- Rebecca West, The Judge
July 29, 2009