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florilegium

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[ UK /flˈɒɹa‍ɪld‍ʒəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

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  • This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic, Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
  • 8Pedagogically, a florilegium enabled students to envision memory as a garden, carefully plotted for seeds and cuttings collected from other exemplary lives and works. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • Florilegia (Lat., florilegium, an anthology) are systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • SIGLO: FREEDOM - a florilegium of old and new writers and illustrators, edited by Vin and myself Notes from the peanut gallery
  • But let us close our florilegium and attempt to illustrate Jargon by the converse method of taking a famous piece of English (say Hamlet’s soliloquy) and remoulding a few lines of it in this fashion: —To be, or the contrary? V. Interlude: On Jargon
  • When Josh asked me to make a Sarah Palin florilegium, I didn't blink. TPM: News Pages
  • Note 18: A florilegium is basically the contents of someone's memory, set forth as a kind of study-guide for the formation of others 'memories .... Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • Like the florilegium, the practice of aedificatio built personal character and established guiding principles for everyday life. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • 14 To prepare their sons for this challenge, Leonardo and Federico each bequeathed a florilegium. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • The Camerarius Florilegium depicts 473 plants with their Latin names inscribed in Camerarius' hand.
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