immortelle
/ɪmɔːˈtɛl/
immortelle noun: any of various papery flowers, often dried and used as decoration.
Noun
immortelle (plural immortelles)
- Any of various papery flowers, often dried and used as decoration.
- […] a big rabbit-warren of a house full of […] fragments of the day's market, garlic, stale incense, clothes thrown on the floor, petticoats hung on strings for screens, old bottles, pewter crucifixes, dried immortelles, pariah puppies, plaster images of the Virgin, and hats without crowns.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “His Chance in Life”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 55
- Any of various trees of the genus Erythrina.
- The land between the road and the gully widened; the gully grew shallower. Beyond it Mr Biswas saw the tall immortelles and their red and yellow flowers. And then the untrodden road blazed with the flowers.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 3
Forms of immortelle
| plural | immortelles |
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Origin of immortelle
Borrowed from French immortelle.
Questions about immortelle
- What does immortelle mean?
- Immortelle means any of various papery flowers, often dried and used as decoration.
- What part of speech is immortelle?
- Immortelle is a noun.
- How do you pronounce immortelle?
- Immortelle is pronounced /ɪmɔːˈtɛl/.
- What is the plural of immortelle?
- The plural of immortelle is immortelles.
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