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- noun Obsolete spelling of
flower .
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Examples
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Sekure firmely wif duckee taipe; adn pul awn 50′s bavving cap w rubbre duckees onnit wif a flowre onna taupe;
Happy cat is happy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Cat cut smal, and Bean-flower, or (if not easily got then) other flowre, and then mix these together, and put to them either Sugar, or Honey, which I think better, and then beat these together in a
The Compleat Angler 2007
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Go to it, agitator! they bassabosuned over the flowre of their hoose.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Gaylede: Take almaunde mylke and flowre of rys, and do therto sugre or hony, and powder gyngere; then take fygs, and kerve them ato, or roysonys yhole, or harde wastel ydicyd and coloure it with saunderys and sette it and dresse hem yn.
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Gaylede: Take almaunde mylke and flowre of rys, and do therto sugre or hony, and powder gyngere; then take fygs, and kerve them ato, or roysonys yhole, or harde wastel ydicyd and coloure it with saunderys and sette it and dresse hem yn.
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_Dydo_, with the Purple flowre for the wounde of _Pius Æneas_: And finding my heart strooken and inwardly pricking, secretly filled and compressiuely stuft; recording and gathering together into it, varyable thoughts and working of Loue, my immedicable wounde grewe greater and greater.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Diuers places were hidden and couered ouer with winding, felted and spreding Iuie, full of black berries, and greene soft leaues heare and there growing vp, and hindering the inwarde obiect of the auncient worke, with other Murall and wall weeds comming out of the chinkes and clifts, as the bell flowre.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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You must take out the Intrailes as you doe of other fish, and cut them a-crosse the sides, as you do to broyle, washed clean, dried with a cloth, lay them upon a Tray or board, sprinkle a little salt on them, and flowre them as to frie them, so take your Frying-pan with so much
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Kyngcuppe and Lillies so beloude of all men and the deluce flowre.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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QUOTATION: No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd,
Quotations 1919
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