millefleur

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millefleur (MEEL-flur, MEEL-floor) - adj., having a background pattern of stylized flowers and plants.


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Often done against a dark green field. From French, clearly, literally thousand flowers. (The term is also sometimes used for millefiori, a type of decorative glassware, which is the Italian form of the same phrase.)

---L.