- millefleur
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or millefleurs
adjective
Etymology: French mille-fleurs, from mille fleurs a thousand flowers
Date: 1908
having an allover pattern of small flowers and plants <millefleur tapestry>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
millefleur
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millefleur tapestry — (French: “thousand flowers”),also called Menues Verdures, kind of tapestry characterized by its background motif of many small flowers. Most often they show secular scenes or allegories. Millefleur tapestries are thought to have been… … Universalium
millefleur — /meel flerr , floor /; Fr. /meel fluerdd /, adj. having a background sprinkled with representations of flowers, as certain tapestries or pieces of glasswork. [1905 10; < F mille fleurs lit., thousand flowers; cf. MILLEFIORI] * * * … Universalium
millefleur — noun A background of many small flowers and plants, popular in tapestry of the Middle Ages in Europe … Wiktionary
millefleur — mille·fleur … English syllables
millefleur — mille•fleur [[t]milˈflɜr, ˈflʊər[/t]] adj. having a background sprinkled with representations of flowers, as certain tapestries or pieces of glasswork • Etymology: 1905–10; < F mille fleurs lit., thousand flowers … From formal English to slang
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millefleurs — adjective see millefleur … New Collegiate Dictionary
Mille-fleur — Tapestry The Triumph of Death, or the Three Fates with a typical mille fleurs background, Flemish, c. 1510 20. Mille fleurs (French), also in English millefleur or mille fleur literally means thousand flowers and refers to a background made of… … Wikipedia
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