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‖ immortelle
(ɪmɔːˈtɛl, Fr. ‖ imɔrtɛl)
[Fr. (short for fleur immortelle), fem. of immortel immortal.]
A name for various composite flowers of papery texture (esp. Helichrysum orientale, and other species of Helichrysum, Xeranthemum, etc.) which retain their colour after being dried: = everlasting B. 4. Also attrib. and Comb., transf., and fig.
1832Backwoods Canada iv. (1836) 45 The white love-everlasting, the same that the chaplets are made of by the French and Swiss girls to adorn the tombs of their friends, and which they call immortelle; the Americans call it life-everlasting. 1838J. Pardoe River & Desert II. 17 A tall black cross, crowned with immortelles. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. ix. 139 Cliffs..covered..with a beautiful bright lavender-coloured immortelle. 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlii. 431 A milder form of sorrow finds its inexpensive and lasting remembrancer in the coarse and ugly but indestructible ‘immortelle’—which is a wreath or cross or some such emblem, made of rosettes of black linen, with sometimes a yellow rosette at the conjunction of the cross's bars,—kind of sorrowful breastpin, so to say. 1890A. Martin Home Life Ostrich Farm i. 21 Pink and white immortelles, gladioli, ixias, and irises of all kinds abound. 1929D. H. Lawrence Pansies 6 Anyhow I offer a bunch of pansies, not a wreath of immortelles. I don't want everlasting flowers. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. 935/1 Poor little immortelles surviving from that old gorgeous efflorescence of linguistic misuse. 1960R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Cont. Pott. & Porc. 67/2 Blaublümchenmuster, (German) blue flower pattern: ‘aster’ or ‘immortelle’ pattern. Ibid. 239/2 Early [Klösterle] wares were decorated in blue with popular Meissen ‘Immortelle’ and ‘bird on rock’ designs. 1963V. Nabokov Gift iii. 153 Even if he had put on the light the immortelle-like yellowness of daytime electricity would have been no help at all. 1968E. Lovelace Schoolmaster i. 7 The immortelle holds its scarlet blossoms still. 1970New Yorker 22 Aug. 38/3 The old man was himself like a trophy of immortelles. 1971E. M. Roach in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. 22 The giant immortelles Splash fire on the hills. |