"flower-pot" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: flower-pots [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} flower-pot (plural flower-pots)
  1. Alternative form of flowerpot. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: flowerpot
    Sense id: en-flower-pot-en-noun-Iq8M105k Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1653, William Basse, “Clio, or The First Muse; in 9 Eglogues in Honor of 9 Vertues. As It was in His Dayes Intended. [Munday. Laurinella. Eglogue. Of True and Chast Love.]”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, The Pastorals and Other Workes of William Basse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts, Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n.], published 1870, →OCLC, page 14:",
          "text": "O Laurinella! little doſt thou wot\n How fraile a flower thou doſt ſo highly prize:\nBeauty's the flower, but love the flower-pot\n That muſt preſerve it, els it quickly dyes.",
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          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Job Has a Presentiment”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 247:",
          "text": "I hope you will think kindly of my whitened bones, and never have anything more to do with Greek writing on flower-pots, sir, if I may make so bold as to say so.",
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          "ref": "1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), pages 377–378:",
          "text": "Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.",
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          "text": "Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.",
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