floweret Chiefly poet.
(ˈflaʊərɪt)
Also 4 flourette, 6–7 flouret, 7–8 flowret.
[f. flower n. + -et1. Cf. floret.]
A small flower.
| c 1400 Rom. Rose 891 For nought y-clad in silk was he, But al in floures and flourettes. 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 60 That same dew..Stood now within the pretty flouriets eyes. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 379 The Silvan Lodge..With flourets deck't. 1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) II. cxvii. 292 The charms of a tree or a flowret. 1838 Longfellow Reaper & Flowers iv, My Lord has need of these flowerets gay. 1873 Geikie Gt. Ice Age xxx. 423 In arctic regions the short summer brings into bloom a number of pretty flowerets. |
| fig. 1753–4 Shenstone Poet. Wks. (1854) 138 Let Art and Friendship's joint essay Diffuse their flowerets in her way. |
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Add: 2. Also flowerette (flaʊəˈrɛt). = *floret n.1 1 b.
| 1911 C. E. Francatelli Mod. Cook 343 Take a round-bottomed basin and fill it with cauliflowers, placing the flowerets next the sides that the white only may show when dished up. 1962 M. Patten 500 Recipes for Quick Meals v. 47/2 Divide the cauliflower into fairly even flowerets. 1987 Washington Post 26 Aug. e3/3, 1½ cups cauliflower flowerettes. |