Etymology

Flower's Cove

Flow·er's Cove

Today it means: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Full definition →

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The story

The name of the settlement is derived from a corruption of the word flour (“scum caused by the action of breakers on a shoreline”). The element flour was gradually reinterpreted to flower.

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