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deflour

deflour is the obsolete form of deflower.

Meaning of deflower

Verb

deflower (third-person singular simple present deflowers, present participle deflowering, simple past and past participle deflowered)

  1. (transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.
    • But when you deflower a girl, that's it. You did it. You were the one. No one else can ever do it.1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Telly
  2. (transitive) To deprive of flowers.
  3. (transitive) To deprive of grace and beauty.

Forms of deflour

third-person singular presentdeflours
present participledeflouring
past participledefloured
pastdefloured

Origin of deflour

From French déflorer, Late Latin deflorare, from Latin de- + flos, floris (“flower”). See flower, and compare deflorate.

Words formed from deflour

Questions about deflour

What is deflour the obsolete form of?
Deflour is the obsolete form of deflower.

Words near deflour in the dictionary

  1. deflorating
  2. defloration
  3. deflorations
  4. deflorescence
  5. deflorescences
  6. deflour
  7. defloured
  8. deflourer
  9. deflourers
  10. deflouring
  11. deflours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deflour (page history and authors); deflower (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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