1. A vessel, most commonly of red earthenware and slightly tapering downwards, to contain soil in which flowers may be planted.
1598. Florio, s.v. Grasta, Flowerpots or lillypots.
1692–3. Queen’s Coll. Acc., in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), III. 385. Paid for a Blew flower-pott for the Parlour.
1780. Coxe, Russ. Disc., II. iii. 223. An open gallery, adorned on both sides with flower-pots, leads from the back-door of the armoury to the colonade of the temple.
1856. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., II. 288. I brought two live plants in flower-pots, one out of our own garden.
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1842. Francis, Dict. Arts, etc., Flower Pot. A particular kind of fire-work, that when ignited throws out a fountain of vivid spur-shaped sparks; these although so luminous, yet communicate no heat to the hand held in them.
