Fwd: flor: Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day

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From: Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: 2014-07-17 2:00 GMT-05:00
Subject: flor: Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day
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	Spanish Word of the Day Thursday, July 17, 2014 Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help flor, noun flower The basic meaning of la flor is flower. un ramo de flores a bunch of flowers To describe a tree or a plant in flower, Spanish constructs the phrase in the same way as English, en flor: una noche de primavera bajo los castaños en flor a spring night beneath the chestnut trees in flower But you also use flor metaphorically, to describe something which is the best of its kind: la flor del ejército the elite of the army Notice the idiomatic phrase la flor y nata de, the cream of: la flor y nata de la sociedad mexicana the cream of Mexican society la flor y nata del espectáculo the cream of show business Content By © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2006. All rights reserved. Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/es/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Unsubscribe To subscribe to Spanish Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday-es@lists.lexico.com ©2014 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to The Spanish Word of the Day can be turned on and off via the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/help/faq/wordoftheday/   Tell a friend about The Spanish Word of the Day!

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