verbloeming
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom verbloemen + -ing.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: ver‧bloe‧ming
Noun
editverbloeming f (plural verbloemingen, diminutive verbloemingetje n)
- A euphemistic or masked phrasing, vaguery
- An excuse, apologetic phrasing, justification
- A rhetoric figure of speech
- A fleuron, floral ornament
- (chemistry) An efflorescence
Synonyms
edit- (rhetoric): stijlbloem