Word.ws English Dictionary

flowerprint

flowerprint noun: a design or pattern with flowers as the main focus.

Noun

flowerprint (plural flowerprints)

  1. (attributive, usually) A design or pattern with flowers as the main focus.
    • safe with her moths and pins,
      threads of the flowerprints
      coming loose from her sky of wool.1981, Edward Field, Geography of Poets, page 13
    • On the walls inside are flowerprint wallpaper and framed watercolors, complemented by just the right amount of foliage and wrought iron.1984, Smith, Douglas Alton, The midpeninsula Scotch gourmet : the frugal epicure's guide to eating and drinking on the lower San Francisco peninsula, page 131

Examples of flowerprint in a sentence

  • She set down a huge wooden spoon, wiped her long hands on her flowerprint apron, and gave me a hug that smelled of rosemary.1986, Epstein, Daniel Mark, Star of wonder : American stories & memoirs, page 115:
  • And whereas baggy flowerprint trousers might have been fine while browsing along the Turkish coast they will not necessarily look quite so splendid winging through the supermarket.1988, Du Cann, Charlotte, 1956-, Vogue, modern style, page 37:
  • She wore a single flowerprint wrapper and was barefoot.1989, Okri, Ben, Stars of the new curfew, page 29:
  • When she and Steven took their walk after dinner that night, and the flowerprints had appeared, at first she felt overwhelmed, touched by a transcendent force she didn't understand.2004, R. B. Wilcox, Karma On Tap: The Online Buddhist Revolution, page 6:

Forms of flowerprint

pluralflowerprints

Origin of flowerprint

Compound of flower + print.

Questions about flowerprint

What does flowerprint mean?
Flowerprint means a design or pattern with flowers as the main focus.
How do you use flowerprint in a sentence?
She set down a huge wooden spoon, wiped her long hands on her flowerprint apron, and gave me a hug that smelled of rosemary.
What part of speech is flowerprint?
Flowerprint is a noun.
What is the plural of flowerprint?
The plural of flowerprint is flowerprints.

Words near flowerprint in the dictionary

  1. flowerpotful
  2. flowerpotfuls
  3. flowerpots
  4. flowerpots-ful
  5. flowerpotsful
  6. flowerprint
  7. flowerprints
  8. flowers
  9. flowers of antimony
  10. flowers of sulfur
  11. flowers of sulphur

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flowerprint (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “flowerprint.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/flowerprint. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.