flowerprint

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noun

A design or pattern with flowers as the main focus.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounflowerprint (plural flowerprints)

plural flowerprints

  1. attributiveusuallyA design or pattern with flowers as the main focus.

    safe with her moths and pins, threads of the flowerprints coming loose from her sky of wool.

    1981, Edward Field, Geography of Poets, page 13
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    On the walls inside are flowerprint wallpaper and framed watercolors, complemented by just the right amount of foliage and wrought iron.

    1984, Smith, Douglas Alton, The midpeninsula Scotch gourmet : the frugal epicure's guide to eating and drinking on the lower San Francisco peninsula, page 131

    She needed only God’s help and seemed to have plenty of it. She set down a huge wooden spoon, wiped her long hands on her flowerprint apron, and gave me a hug that smelled of rosemary.

    1986, Epstein, Daniel Mark, Star of wonder : American stories & memoirs, page 115

    Lawrence of Arabia might have got away with walking down Piccadilly in full-lowing Arab robes but nobody else will. And whereas baggy flowerprint trousers might have been fine while browsing along the Turkish coast they will not necessarily look quite so splendid winging through the supermarket.

    1988, Du Cann, Charlotte, 1956-, Vogue, modern style, page 37

    She was a robust figure, with a face of jagged and familiar beauty. She wore a single flowerprint wrapper and was barefoot.

    1989, Okri, Ben, Stars of the new curfew, page 29

    When she and Steven took their walk after dinner that night, and the flowerprints had appeared, at first she felt overwhelmed, touched by a transcendent force she didn't understand.

    2004, R. B. Wilcox, Karma On Tap: The Online Buddhist Revolution, page 6

Origin

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