deflour

English

Etymology

From French déflorer, Late Latin deflorare, from Latin de- + flos, floris (“flower”). See flower, and compare deflorate.

Verb

deflour (third-person singular simple present deflours, present participle deflouring, simple past and past participle defloured)

  1. Obsolete form of deflower.
    • Jeremy Taylor
      He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deflour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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