-***fleur***
- fleur An example of epibolium flowers (''fleurs d’épilobes''){{fr-noun|f}} :: {botany} Flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants").
- Je suis allé cueillir une fleur dans les champs. :: --
- I went to pick a flower in the fields. :: --
- Il m’a offert de magnifiques fleurs. :: --
- He offered me magnificent flowers. :: --
- fleur An example of epibolium flowers (''fleurs d’épilobes''){{fr-noun|f}} :: {{context|by metonymy}} Flowering plant; angiosperm; the plant with flowers itself.
- Les orchidées sont des fleurs recherchées. :: --
- Orchids are sought-after flowers. :: --
- fleur An example of epibolium flowers (''fleurs d’épilobes''){{fr-noun|f}} :: {figuratively} A kind favor given by one person to another.
- Il m’a fait une fleur. :: --
- He gave me a kind favor. :: --
- fleur An example of epibolium flowers (''fleurs d’épilobes''){{fr-noun|f}} :: {figuratively} The best of something.
- Voici la fine fleur de la jeunesse française. :: --
- Here's the cream of the crop of French youth. :: --
- Mourir à la fleur de l’âge. :: --
- to die in the prime of life :: --
- fleur An example of epibolium flowers (''fleurs d’épilobes''){{fr-noun|f}} :: {{context|by metaphor}} The virginity of a woman.
- Jean de la Fontaine, Fables :: --
- Il est bon de garder sa fleur ; mais pour l’avoir perdue il ne se faut pas pendre. :: --
- It is wise to guard one's blossom, but to have lost it one should not hang. :: --
- fleur An example of epibolium flowers (''fleurs d’épilobes''){{fr-noun|f}} :: {{archaic|chemistry}} Substances with a state of purity or extreme separation, produced by sublimation.
- Fleurs de soufre, de zinc, d’arsenic, d’antimoine. :: --
- refinements of sulfer, zinc, arsenic, antimony :: --
-***flor***
- (Old French) flor {{fro-noun|f}} :: flower