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单词 floramour
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floramourn.

Forms: 1500s–1600s flo(u)ramor(e, flor(e)amour, flower amo(u)r, ? florimer.
Etymology: < Old French *flor amour (in Cotgrave fleur d'amour) lit. ‘flower of love’. Compare German floramor (16th cent.). The suggestion that amour is a perversion of amaranthus seems not impossible, but is not supported by evidence.
Obsolete.
1. A name given to various cultivated species of Amaranthus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [noun] > amaranth and allied plants
floramour1548
purple velvet flower1548
velvet-flower1548
Balder-herb1552
flower-gentle1561
passevelours1597
love lies bleeding1664
prince's feather1668
symphonia1728
tricolour1786
celosia1807
Joseph's coat1866
thrumwort1866
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.vijv The other kynde [of Amarantus] is called here in Englande..flouramore.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 255 In English flower Gentle, purple Veluet flower, Floramor.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fleur d'amour, flower-gentle, flower-amour.
1665–76 J. Rea Flora 178 The great Floramour hath a thick and tall crested stalk, with many reddish large green leaves.
2. Misused for: love of flowers.
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the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > love of flowers
floramour1873
1873 L. Wallace Fair God i. iv. 18 Ministering to the voluptuous floramour of the locality.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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