| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To deprive of flowers.[Websters]
2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament.[Websters] 3. To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce.[Websters] 4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: deflouring, defloured, deflours, deflourer, deflourers, deflouringly and deflouredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DEFLOUR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Note: Deflour \De*flour"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Defloured; present participle verb or noun Deflouring.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DEFLOUR
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To deprive a woman of her virginity, either by force or with consent. When by force, it may be equivalent to ravish or violate. | 2: [Verb] To take away the prime beauty and grace of any thing. The sweetness of his soul was defloured. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
