flowerprintとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

flowerprint (plural flowerprints)

1. (Usually attributive) A design or pattern with flowers as the main focus.
   • 1981, Edward Field, Geography of Poets‎, page 13:

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

   • 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:

     On the walls inside are flowerprint wallpaper and framed watercolors, complemented by just the right amount of foliage and wrought iron.

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

   • 2008, Peymani, Christine, The perfect party‎, page 11:

     Cloe wore a pink strapless sundress, Jade a polka-dot print shift, Sasha an orange flowerprint halter dress, and Yasmin a brightly patterned dress with billowy sleeves which she’d bought for the trip.

   • 2015, Strand, Mark, 1934-2014, author, Mr. and Mrs. Baby and other stories‎, New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, page 31:

     She sits in a flowerprint dress. Her thin legs crossed, the tips of her shoes hardly reaching the ground, she suddenly, in barely audible tones, sings a song about rain falling and a man on a bicycle, hurrying home.