Immortelle

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of several coral trees, especially Erythrina fusca or E. poeppigiana.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Any one of the flowers commonly called everlasting, or a wreath made of such flowers.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See everlasting.
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  • noun. Any of various papery flowers, often dried and used as decoration.
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  • noun. mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere
  • Word Usage
    "A milder form of sorrow finds its inexpensive and lasting remembrancer in the coarse and ugly but indestructible 'immortelle' -- which is a wreath or cross or some such emblem, made of rosettes of black linen, with sometimes a yellow rosette at the conjunction of the cross's bars -- kind of sorrowful breast-pin, so to say."
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