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Flowers Anthea epithet of Hera, meaning “flowery.” [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 121] ancient Athenian festival, celebrating flowers and new wine. [Gk. Hist.: Misc.] Dumas romance involved with tulipomania of 17th-century Holland. [Fr. Lit.: Benét, 111] goddess of flowers. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 59] New Year’s Day flower festival and parade in Pasadena. [Am. Cult.: WB, C:45] wedded pair, scatter flowers from cornucopia. [Rom. Myth.: Hall, 125] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was a lovely country, with plenty of flowers and fruit trees and sunshine to cheer them, and had they not felt so sorry for the poor Scarecrow, they could have been very happy. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. He belonged to that natural, humorous school who took for their motto in the seventeenth century the aphorism uttered by one of their number in 1653, -- "To despise flowers is to offend God. |
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