flowery

suomi-englanti sanakirja

flowery englannista suomeksi

korusanainen
kukallinen, kukkainen

flowery englanniksi

Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
(quote-book) McBride & Company|year_published=1932|section=part XII (Lord Osmund’s Lenten Party)|page=464|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_NaAAAAMAAJ&q=floweriest|oclc=1281420|passage=“Sir you are mistaken—I am not——.” But before he could say ‘a girl,’ this ancient period-strumpet of a bedizened man (upon a pattern drawn from a time of swords and silk, when men were in their floweriest scent—savagely tattooed with braid—intoxicated with their own snuff—forever on tiptoe—disgusted with the mannish—wooing Woman after the fashion of women) burst in and silenced him, (..)
Decorated with or abundant in flowers.

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{{quote-text|en|year=1879|author=William Henderson|title=Notes on the folk-lore of the northern counties of England and the borders
Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.
(RQ:Plato Tredennick Socrates)
Melodramatic, overexaggerated.
(quote-book) Franklin|chapter=Use of Hands and Feet|title=Rehearsal: The Principles and Practice of Acting for the Stage|location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J.|publisher=Hall|Prentice-Hall|section=part II (Sharpening Theater Tools), chapter 4 (Language of Action)|page=60|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/rehearsalprincip0000fran_f8n1/page/60/mode/1up|isbn=0-13-771592-7|passage=Although flowery actions are used in the plays of the 1890s, waving arms, wringing hands, and pleading with outstretched arms would be unsuitable in plays about modern life.
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Someone or something considered flowery.
A flowery person.
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(quote-newsgroup) Marxism has NOTHING to do with what the extremist leftists or rightists or floweries are doing/saying.
A flowery phrase or statement.
(quote-book)|chapter=In Which My Appearance Causes the Sovereign Demos to Arise in Its Might|title=Jack Westropp: An Autobiography(nb...)|volume=II|location=London|publisher=Downey & Co.(nb...)|pages=105–106|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/jackwestroppauto02lond/page/105/mode/1up|oclc=18279978|passage=“I am glad to find I have such an eloquent junior,” said he, shaking hands with me. “Just leave me the law and the arguments, and ''do you take the floweries''.” / (..) “I am afraid, Magee,” said I, “that neither your law nor my ‘floweries,’ as you call them, will be of much use here. The game is up.” / “Nonsense, man—the game is never up till the verdict is given. Everything depends on the jury. (..) And of course we can have a strong ''alibi'' or two—eh?”
A flowery decoration.
(quote-book) Done|chapter=Of the Presents Sent vnto ''(High Priest)|Eleazer'' Pontiffe of the ''Iewes'', by King ''II Philadelphus|Ptolomeus Philadelphus''. And First of the Table of Gold.|title=of Aristeas|The Auncient History of the Septuagint.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Okes|N(quote-gloss) Okes|page=47|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bib_fict_690536/page/47/mode/1up|oclc=1482340|passage=He gaue in charge to the Gold-ſmiths that were moſt ingenious and of beſt ſpirit to finiſh and accompliſh the buſineſſe, ingrauen and enriched with all variety poſſible: willing that thoſe which ſhould worke in the Borders, Rayſings, Flowries, and Wrappings, Entortilations, and ſuch like; ſhould amuſe themſelues onely for Beautifying and Decoration: (..)
*(quote-book)|edition=revised|location=London|publisher=(...) W(quote-gloss) Hensman, and Tho(quote-gloss) Fox,(nb...)|pages=34–35|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bib_fict_4102623/page/35/mode/1up|oclc=12862868|passage=He gave it in charge to the Goldſmiths that were moſt ingenious, and of beſt capacity, to finſh and accompliſh the Buſineſs, engraven and adorned with all poſſible Variety: commanding that thoſe who wrought in the Borders, Raiſings, Floweries, Wrappings, Entortilations, and ſuch like; ſhould amuſe themſelves only for Beautifying and Decoration: (..)
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Vanguard Press|page=262|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/charcoharbournov00blun/page/262/mode/1up|isbn=0-8149-0001-1|passage=‘Oh, you do be taking hoff them floweries,’ a voice would say suddenly behind him. / ‘Don’t you wish you was an artisty, Joe? Naught to do all day but sit on yer arse.’
(diminutive of).
(quote-book) Chaucer|editor=Olive Beaupré Miller|title=Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse|series=My Bookhouse|seriesvolume=2|location=Chicago, Ill.|publisher=The Bookhouse for Children|page=84|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/uponepairofstair0000unse/page/84/mode/1up|oclc=4081273|passage=Hearken these blissful birdies how they sing, / And see the freshé floweries, how they spring!”
(quote-book) (quote-gloss)|chapter=10|title=My Friend Madame Zora|location=London|publisher=Pan Books|year_published=1966|page=208|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/myfriendmadamezo0000unse_v3l7/page/208/mode/1up|oclc=476120998|passage=That pottie’s too wee for six, Minnie, lassie. Go ben to the room press and you’ll see a big brown one with blue floweries on it.
(quote-book)|newversion=quoted in|2ndauthor=John Casson|chapter2=‘When We Are Old, Are Old’|title2=Lewis & Sybil: A Memoir|location2=London|publisher2=Collins, Sons|Collins|year2=1972|page2=320|pageurl2=https://archive.org/details/lewissybilmemoir0000cass/page/320/mode/1up|isbn2=0 00 211488 7|passage=I wore a white dress with yellow, grey and black floweries on it and a large white hat.
A place where flowers grow.
(quote-journal)|title=April Days on Canada’s Farms|journal=Farmer’s Magazine|location=Toronto, Ont.|publisher=Maclean Publishing Company|page=85|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/farmersmagazine1914toro/page/n392/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=33258632|passage=Poppies make very showy floweries and should be planted lightly in the spots where they are intended to be grown.
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