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millefleur She was painstakingly embroidering a millefleur pattern on a pillow casing. millefleur*

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Having a pattern of small flowers and plants all over. Millefleur came into French from the Latin mille florae (“a thousand flowers”), and from French directly into English. You may have seen the famed Unicorn Tapestries, in which the unicorn is seen frolicking, relaxing, being hunted, and being caught, all against a beautiful millefleur background. Italian has given us the similar word millefiori; though fiori, like fleurs, means “flowers,” millefiori actually refers to a type of multicolored ornamental glass. And the borrowed French word mille-feuille (feuille meaning “leaf”) is the name of a dish made with puff pastry, the kind of pastry whose flakes resemble thin dry leaves.

word	millefleur
definition	Having a pattern of small flowers and plants all over.
eg_sentence	She was painstakingly embroidering a millefleur pattern on a pillow casing.
explanation	Millefleur came into French from the Latin mille florae (“a thousand flowers”), and from French directly into English. You may have seen the famed Unicorn Tapestries, in which the unicorn is seen frolicking, relaxing, being hunted, and being caught, all against a beautiful millefleur background. Italian has given us the similar word millefiori; though fiori, like fleurs, means “flowers,” millefiori actually refers to a type of multicolored ornamental glass. And the borrowed French word mille-feuille (feuille meaning “leaf”) is the name of a dish made with puff pastry, the kind of pastry whose flakes resemble thin dry leaves.
IPA	millefleur*

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