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fleur.

flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants")

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Meaning & usage

noun/flœʁ/
  1. flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants")

    feminine
    Je suis allé cueillir une fleur dans les champs.
    Il m’a offert de magnifiques fleurs.
  2. flowering plant; angiosperm; the plant with flowers itself

    feminine · metonymically
    Les orchidées sont des fleurs recherchées.
  3. a kind favor given by one person to another

    feminine · figuratively
    Il m’a fait une fleur.
  4. the best of something

    feminine · figuratively
    Voici la fine fleur de la jeunesse française.
    Mourir à la fleur de l’âge.
  5. the virginity of a woman

    feminine · figuratively
  6. Substances with a state of purity or extreme separation, produced by sublimation

    archaic · feminine
    Fleurs de soufre, de zinc, d’arsenic, d’antimoine.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old French flur, flour, flor, from Latin flōrem (“flower; the finest part of something”), from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”). In some senses, from Middle French fleur (“surface, upper side, top layer”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“floor”).

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