floroon
English
editEtymology
editFrom French fleuron. See flower.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfloroon (plural floroons)
- A border worked with flowers.
- 1898, Amanda McKittrick Ros, Delina Delaney:
- The mountains of glass that harboured within their elevated cavities such floroons, encompassing innumerable dazzling circlets of all sizes and shades […]
References
edit“floroon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.