Meaning of flowerprint | Babel Free

Definitions

A design or pattern with flowers as the main focus.

attributive, usually

Examples

“safe with her moths and pins, threads of the flowerprints coming loose from her sky of wool.”

“On the walls inside are flowerprint wallpaper and framed watercolors, complemented by just the right amount of foliage and wrought iron.”

“She needed only God’s help and seemed to have plenty of it. She set down a huge wooden spoon, wiped her long hands on her flowerprint apron, and gave me a hug that smelled of rosemary.”

“Lawrence of Arabia might have got away with walking down Piccadilly in full-lowing Arab robes but nobody else will. And whereas baggy flowerprint trousers might have been fine while browsing along the Turkish coast they will not necessarily look quite so splendid winging through the supermarket.”

“She was a robust figure, with a face of jagged and familiar beauty. She wore a single flowerprint wrapper and was barefoot.”

“When she and Steven took their walk after dinner that night, and the flowerprints had appeared, at first she felt overwhelmed, touched by a transcendent force she didn't understand.”

“Cloe wore a pink strapless sundress, Jade a polka-dot print shift, Sasha an orange flowerprint halter dress, and Yasmin a brightly patterned dress with billowy sleeves which she’d bought for the trip.”

“She sits in a flowerprint dress. Her thin legs crossed, the tips of her shoes hardly reaching the ground, she suddenly, in barely audible tones, sings a song about rain falling and a man on a bicycle, hurrying home.”

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