[ad. F. fleurette, dim. of fleur flower.] a. An ornament like a small flower. b. See quot. 1868.
1811. Pinkerton, Petral., I. 428. The little fleurets, and other miniatures, which we admire in the tombs and buildings of that period, are sculptured on a stone of the finest grain, and at the same time of a softness most easily obedient to the chisel.
1858. The Saturday Review, V. 24 April, 425/2. The cymation, or wave-moulding, represented the sea—the mæander, a river—the fleurette, the verdant plain.
1868. A. B. Alcott, Tablets, 22. The fruit spread on sawdust, and so arranged that the fleurets, or blossom ends, may look downwards, and the pedicles, or stalks, upwards.
1881. Terrien de la Couperie, in Numism. Chron., Ser. III. I. 345. Bearing on the obverse eight fleurets containing the eight Vitaragas or Mangals.
