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floroon

/fləˈɹuːn/

floroon noun: a border worked with flowers.

Noun

floroon (plural floroons)

  1. A border worked with flowers.
    • The mountains of glass that harboured within their elevated cavities such floroons, encompassing innumerable dazzling circlets of all sizes and shades[…]1898, Amanda McKittrick Ros, Delina Delaney

Forms of floroon

pluralfloroons

Origin of floroon

From French fleuron. See flower.

Questions about floroon

What does floroon mean?
Floroon means a border worked with flowers.
What part of speech is floroon?
Floroon is a noun.
How do you pronounce floroon?
Floroon is pronounced /fləˈɹuːn/.
What is the plural of floroon?
The plural of floroon is floroons.

Words near floroon in the dictionary

  1. Florkin
  2. Flornes
  3. Floro
  4. Florodora
  5. Florodoras
  6. floroon
  7. floroons
  8. Floros
  9. florosenine
  10. Florrie
  11. flors

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