| \flawr-uh-LEE-jee-uh m, flohr-\ | noun
1. a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
| | Quotes | … Brichot who was not merely kind to Morel, but would cull from the Greek philosophers, the Latin poets, the oriental storytellers, appropriate texts which decorated the Baron's propensity with a strange and charming florilegium.
-- Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, The Captive, 1992 | | Origin | | Florilegium can be traced to the Latin terms flōs meaning "flower" and legere meaning "to gather." Historically, it has been used to refer to both collections of literal flowers and figurative flowers in the sense of notable literary extracts. It entered English in the mid-1600s. | |
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