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Definition of Floriation
1. n. Ornamentation by means of flower forms, whether closely imitated or conventionalized.
Definition of Floriation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floriation
Literary usage of Floriation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tapestries, Their Origin, History and Renaissance by George Leland Hunter (1912)
"Fascinating and decorative to a wonderful degree is the floriation outside the
brick frame of Baptism and below the brick frame of the last ..."
2. Tapestries, Their Origin, History and Renaissance by George Leland Hunter (1912)
"Fascinating and decorative to a wonderful degree is the floriation outside the
brick frame of Baptism and below the brick frame of the last ..."
3. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1893)
"The floriated cross is the most familiar of all devices on mediaeval tombstones
in England ; and a symbolical intention has been claimed for the floriation, ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"... who trusted the Australian Nag, the one a Fiduciary Undertaker, who, having
in '87 landed a 40-to-l chance by reason of the victory of (floriation, ..."
5. The Bookman (1895)
"... with an elaborate border of mitred fillets and curves, and double with tasteful
floriation ; and a Kelmscott Keats in a rich fanfare design. ..."