Pronunciation: MUHTH-uhr HUHB-urhd, noun
Notes: I didn’t know that this was a word
Yesterday’s word
The word millefleur means “having an allover pattern of small flowers and plants”
First usage
This is odd; there seem to be two different ideas: some reference material said that our word came into English in the 1900s (1900-1910); other references say that it entered English in the 1600s.
Background / Comments
Our word is also spelled millefleurs. Probably much as you did, I saw “mille” (which I assumed meant one thousand) and “fleur” (which I assumed meant “flower”), and thus literally “a thousand flowers”. Our word came from the French word millefleur, which does indeed come from mille fleurs (a thousand flowers). By association with the literal meaning, our word was applied to backgrounds with lots of tiny flowers.
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