flowers n pl
   1988 Nfld Studies iv (2), 138 A floral passage (like the one in Milton's Lycidas) [follows] built with grim economy on a pun: flowers, along that stretch of coast, reverberates with echoes of fleur in the place names of the old French Shore, meaning 'a rock that is awash'--the grim sunker of other parts of Newfoundland.

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