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floristy en · ADJ

Etymology

From florist + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Typical of something a florist creates or produces.
   • The flowers; they had determined to have only natural flowers of the season, nothing floristy. 1963, Mary McCarthy, The Group, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →LCCN, page 358:
   • I used garden flowers, and weed kind of things, grasses, nothing floristy, and Dick loved it. 2017, Norma Stevens, Steven M. L. Aronson, quoting Maggy Geiger, Avedon: Something Personal, William Heinemann, →ISBN:
   • Some argued that “Honorable Mention,” who had used Queen Anne’s lace, field asters, and devil’s-paintbrush (which to Peter’s eye was orange), ought to have had first prize. A man stood up for the awards. “To me, they look bright and colorful.” “Floristy,” his wife told him. 1971, Mary McCarthy, Birds of America, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, page 82:
   • It is well named, for it is a very “floristy” flower, and is bound to be a favourite among the show fraternity. 1914, The Garden, page 207:
   • Scripture from that beatitude will be bell-toned over her grave, barely one year old in the sloping churchyard, edging the backcountry she came from to meet and marry my friend, bear his son, and stamp her farm woman’s style on every room of the home they didn’t share long enough, before something lacking the kindness of rain seized her, spoke its feared name, made known its foul intentions to her body, and foretold the casket spray of wildflowers. He’d have nothing floristy. 2007, Charles Semones, “Wildflowers”, in And All the Layered Light: Last Poems (The Conecuh Series), Montgomery, Ala.; Louisville: NewSouth Books, →ISBN, page 49:

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