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florilegium

flo·ri·le·gium

UK/ˌflɔɹəˈliːdʒi.əm/ uncommon

noun

1.

an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

Origin

Borrowed from Renaissance Latin flōrilegium, calque of Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”) (compare English anthology), so called because flowers were used as symbols of the finer sensibility of literature.

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