What is "immortelle" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does immortelle mean in English? Meaning of immortelle definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "immortelle" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "immortelle": mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere

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  • Meaning: mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere
  • Synonyms: immortelle xeranthemum annuum
  • Hypernyms: everlasting everlasting flower
  • Adjective: Any of various papery flowers, often dried and used as decoration. 1888: a big rabbit-warren of a house full of [...] fragments of the day's market, garlic, stale incense, clothes thrown on the floor, petticoats hung on strings for screens, old bottles, pewter crucifixes, dried immortelles, pariah puppies, plaster images of the Virgin, and hats without crowns. — Rudyard Kipling, ‘His Chance in Life’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2005, p. 55)1888: a big rabbit-warren of a house full of [...] fragments of the day's market, garlic, stale incense, clothes thrown on the floor, petticoats hung on strings for screens, old bottles, pewter crucifixes, dried immortelles, pariah puppies, plaster images of the Virgin, and hats without crowns. — Rudyard Kipling, ‘His Chance in Life’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2005, p. 55)
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