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Artificial flower   /ˌɑrtəfˈɪʃəl flˈaʊər/   Listen
Artificial flower

noun
1.
A handmade imitation of a blossom.





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"Artificial flower" Quotes from Famous Books



... the maiden, showed that his emotions were more rapid and ardent than those inspired by fraternal love. They were seated at a table strewed with shreds of cloth, gummed cotton, green taffeta, little palettes of colours, small pencils, and all the necessary apparatus of artificial flower-making. ...
— Tales for Young and Old • Various
... assure you, Monsieur Marcel," exclaimed Mimi quickly. "I have been working to earn my living, only as artificial flower making was not a very flourishing business I took up another. I sit to painters. If you have any jobs to give me," ...
— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger
... I could not value highly the ordinary standards of success and excellence. When I went to church and saw a thin, blue, artificial flower, or a great sleepy cushion expounding the beauty of holiness to pews full of eagles, half-eagles, and three-pences, however adroitly concealed they might be in broadcloth and boots: or saw an onion in an Easter ...
— Prue and I • George William Curtis
... method is that it is apt to be mechanical. One can always tell an engraving from a picture, an artificial flower from a real flower. To copy virtues one by one has somewhat the same effect as eradicating the vices one by one; the temporary result is an overbalanced and incongruous character. Some one defines a PRIG as "a creature ...
— Addresses • Henry Drummond
... Italians now as they must have been when those customs were first imagined and adopted. But, instead of blossoms on the shrub, or freshly gathered, with the dewdrops on their leaves, their worship, nowadays, is best symbolized by the artificial flower. ...
— The Marble Faun, Volume II. - The Romance of Monte Beni • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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