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語源

From Middle English flourette,^[1] from Old French florete.^[2] By surface analysis, flower +‎ -et; compare flowerlet. Doublet of fleuret and floret.

名詞

floweret (複数形 flowerets)

1. A floret, or small or component flower
   • c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     No more ſhall trenching war channel her fields, / Nor bruiſe her flourets with the armed hoofes / Of hoſtile paces: […]

     • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 46, column 1:

       No more ſhall trenching Warre channell her fields, / Nor bruiſe her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes / Of hoſtile paces.

   • 1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828)‎^[1]:

     And, hark! she whispers in the zephyr's voice, Lift up thy head, fair floweret, and rejoice!

   • 1879, James Stevenson, Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879‎^[2]:

     Handsome piece, with floweret at the apex, scrolls on the side, and a scalloped band around the middle.

   • 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California‎^[3]:

     The domestic sheep, on the contrary, is only a fraction of an animal, a whole flock being required to form an individual, just as numerous flowerets are required to make one complete sunflower.

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