a. [ad. L. flōrulent-us, f. flōr-, flōs flower.] a. Abounding in flowers, flowery. b. In decorative art: Consisting of depicted flowers.
a. 1592. R. D., Hypnerotomachia, 91. Within them passed about the glorious triumphs, turning vpon the florulent ground, and green swoord, a place dedicated to the happie.
1670–81. in Blount, Glossogr.
1869. A. Steele, in W. S. Crockett, Minstrelsy Merse (1893), 160.
| Nor name those balmy, spicy dells, | |
| Though florulent they be, | |
| Their fairy charms let others sing, | |
| The Hirsel yet for me! |
b. 1859. H. S. Cuming, On Celtic Antiquities Exhumed in Lincolnshire and Dorsetshire, in Jrnl. Archæol. Assoc. XV. Sept., 227. The ends of the branches are decorated with florulent scrolls in relief, upon a mat ground.
Hence Florulentness.
1727. in Bailey, vol. II.
