Definition of Flowery

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Definition of Flowery
	Flowery Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Related Definitions: Abounding, As, Embellished, Figurative, Florid, Flowery, Full, Highly, Language, Of, Style, With

Flowery Quotations

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
Kenneth Grahame

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
Frank Knox

Flowery Translations

flowery in German is blumige

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