What is "florist"

Usage examples of "florist".

Grabbing the Yellow Pages and her address book, she got on the phone to caterers, musicians, airlines, florists, the King Croesus, personalized shopping services, Mrs.

The first two days of the show were hectic ones, getting the horses settled in, clipped, and groomed, with more exhibiters arriving all the time, florists delivering huge potted plants to various stables to aid in the transformation of common stalls into showcases, and car penters and electricians swarming all over the place like so many flies in a barn.

However, that would be balanced by sunny economic news: Funeral homes, casket makers and florists would enjoy a sales boom.

It seemed to say that the glittering shops of the jewelers, the milliners, the confectioners, the florists, the picture-dealers, the furriers, the makers of rare and costly antiquities, retail traders in luxuries of life, were beneath the notice of a house that had its foundations in the high finance, and was built literally and figuratively in the shadow of St.

The true conquest of northern Arctica lay in yerba hay, in bathyrhiza wood, in pericoup and glycophyllon, and eventually, when the market had expanded with population and industry, in chalcanthemum for city florists and pelts of cage-bred rover for city furriers.

The true conquest of northern Arctica lay in yerba hay, in bathyrhiza wood, in pericoup and glycophyllon and eventually, when the market had expanded with population and industry, in chalcanthemum for city florists and pelts of cage-bred rover for city furriers.

Lew Croaker, looking ten years younger and as unprepossessing as a Florist's assistant should, entered Caesare Leonforte's compound in the back of the green and yellow Amazonia Florist van that daily delivered fresh flowers to the white mansion.

The florists and the candy-makers were told only that the lessee, Earl Gurney, was a white supremacist who was suspected of having masterminded violent antiblack and anti-gay activities in Detroit and Chicago.

Ro yawned as she passed the Replimat and the florist to her left, and the assay office and an empty storefront—.

Give her this message and get the florist to bring round some gardenias, if not, orchids, if not, carnations, all right?

I parked half a block away, so as not to be espied by an evil opposing Mayfair, and then, bouquet in hand (I had pushed back the florist paper to make a mere cuff of it) I approached the gate, coming along the fence beneath a great shrub of crape myrtles that were already wildly and beautifully in bloom.

Between them are a barbershop, a dry cleaner, a florist, a bakery, a bank, the enlisted men's club, the officers' club, a library, a game arcade, a kindergarten, an elementary school, a fitness center, and additional shops all empty, their painted signs faded and weathered.

The florist retreated behind a fan palm after resecuring the door.

When I came out the fellow in the dark coat was across the street looking in the window of a florist shop.

White ones, red ones, pink ones, until her office looked like a florist shop.