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FLOWER • plural noun: flowers.

1. Used as a friendly form of address, especially to a young girl or woman. “all right then, flower?”. 2. The seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs (stamens and carpels) that are typically surrounded by a brightly coloured corolla (petals) and a green calyx (sepals). “the shrub produces blue flowers in early summer”. 3. The finest individuals out of a number of people or things. “he wasted the flower of French youth on his dreams of empire”. 4. Be in or reach an optimum stage of development; develop fully and richly. “she flowered into as striking a beauty as her mother”.

Synonyms: bloom, blossom, floweret, floret, best, finest, top, pick, choice, choicest, prime, cream, prize, treasure, pearl, gem, jewel, the jewel in the crown, the crème de la crème, first class, elite, elect.

Origin: Middle English flour, from Old French flour, flor, from Latin flos, flor- . The original spelling was no longer in use by the late 17th century except in its specialised sense ‘ground grain’ (see flour).

3043 Draft for the &Route, 2003
3118 Exterior view of the Noordoostpolder residency, 2007
3213 Blown to Life bell gardens in use, 2009
3118 Maarten Kolk collecting flowers in the Noordoostpolder, 2007
3294 Student collecting flowers during the Summer School, 2012
4036 Attese Cratevase on a wooden table, 2008
3153 The Vase Cabinet created for the RePacked exhibition (Photo by Bob Goedewaagen), 2008
3173 Installation view of Silver Sugar Spoon, 2010
4028 Product shot of entire set of La France Mandarin, 2003
3042 Detail of one of the mugs of the Minutes Crockery set, 2002
3073 Detail of the chairs before the blue paintjob, 2007
3056 St Petersburg chairs in the Baltic Home Theatre, 2002
3069 Dustbin decorated with drawings of local flora, 2006
3072 Bird’s eye view of the garden of Lusthof Utrecht, 2007
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