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Wiktionary
n. 1 A collection of flowers 2 An anthology
WordNet
n. an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. [syn: garland, miscellany]
[also: florilegia (pl)]
Wikipedia
In medieval Latin a (plural ) was a compilation of excerpts from other writings. The word is from the Latin flos (flower) and legere (to gather): literally a gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work. It was adapted from the Greek anthologia (ἀνθολογία) " anthology", with the same etymological meaning.
Florilegium is an early music ensemble based in London. It was founded in 1991 by the harpsichordist Neal Peres Da Costa and the flautist Ashley Solomon, who is now director of the group. It specialises in period performance of Baroque and early Romantic chamber music.
Usage examples of "florilegium".
Then Florian commanded a number of the Slovaks and the lightest wagon to depart immediately and go on ahead, with a hefty stack of Florilegium posters, to circle the entire extent of Lake Balaton and post paper in every least village and hamlet around its shores.
Darkness was coming down, but the travelers could see their Florilegium posters tacked to trees here and there.
The circus was set up, the town was plastered with posters and, next day, the citizens of Auxerre gave the Florilegium an even warmer welcome than their streets had done.
And Stitches, will you prepare posters announcing that the Florilegium will not be performing that day?
Was that how ancient knowledge survived, only in fragments like the florilegia Da had compiled over the years?
The first book, written on parchment, contained a florilegia on the topic of sorcery: quotes and comments copied out of other books by Da over the years.
Although she had not memorized the entire florilegia, scraps of it emerged, quotations like fish swimming to the surface.
One of the Chinese antipodists turned out to be an accomplished calligrapher and, though he could not at all comprehend the words or letters, he beautifully copied them from one of the old wagons onto each of the new ones, and even onto the wooden panels that enclosed Maximus's cage when it was on the road: Florians Flourishing Florilegium, etc.
They postponed the mere ogling of landmarks and monuments, and instead went to theatres and ballets and cabarets, where the show times would conflict with those of the Florilegium when its performances began.
Edge followed Florian, and the rest of the train followed him, across the bridge over the river Arno and then along a broad road skirting the main city, a road much crowded with other vehicular and pedestrian traffic, most of which came to a stop to gawk at the entry of the Florilegium, while other folk, in a hurry or uninterested in circuses, loudly cursed the jamming of the road.
Florian did persuade that balagan to move from the riverside to the Florilegium.
The Florilegium now had more rolling stock than it had adult males for drivers, because Fitzfarris was always out ahead of the show and Hannibal, at the rear of it, had to guide both Peggy and the horse drawing the bull-pup cannon.
Nevermore would anybody of the Florilegium have to dig and heap up and tamp an earthern curb.
From the Florilegium tober, the circus company watched in wonder as accordion-necked old farmers and muscular young farm laborers and meat-faced farm women, dressed in coarse homespun and wooden sabots, some carrying wicked-looking scythes and sickles, came afoot or in farm carts drawn by mules or oxen, across the Bois de Boulogne from the western countryside and, sparing not even a curious sidelong look at the circus spread, moved implacably toward the center of Paris.
Worse yet, if you had behaved so in our chapiteau here, with its floor of sawdust and tanbark and straw, you could have burned the whole Florilegium to the ground, and killed numberless innocent people.