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Florilegium

//ˌflɔɹəˈliːdʒi.əm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A collection of flowers.

    "Rich owners of private gardens commissioned large-format florilegiums to immortalize their personal taste and power of acquisition, and the drawn pages burned with the urgency and excitement of explaining every plant’s form, color, and beauty."

  2. 2
    an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. wordnet
  3. 3
    An anthology, particularly of excerpts from larger works.
  4. 4
    A patristic anthology.

Etymology

Borrowed from Renaissance Latin flōrilēgium, calque of Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”) (compare English anthology), so called because flowers were used as symbols of the finer sensibility of literature.

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