flowerage

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Fortunately this nut-tree, which threw an unwholesome, frosty nut-shadow on the whole flowerage of love and poetry, soon transplanted itself back again among more congenial guests.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich

When the weeds are once withered or uprooted, then will the nobler flowerage spontaneously and vigorously spring up.–The virtuous heart, like the body, grows sound and strong more by work than by good food.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

And something embryonic in John Bulmer seemed to come, with the knave's benediction, into flowerage.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

The stems are particularly full and smooth, and the heads of the best of them rustle back with a profusion of flaxen flowerage, remarkably agreeable to the touch.

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund

But we must not grudge him a slumber or a sleep among the saughs, lulled by the murmur of millions of humble-bees—we speak within bounds—on their honied flowerage.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde