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picotee
[pik-uh-tee]
noun
a variety of carnation, tulip, etc., having an outer margin of another color.
picotee
/ ˌɪəˈپː /
noun
a type of carnation having pale petals edged with a darker colour, usually red
adjective
like a picotee; with darker edges
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of picotee1
Example Sentences
Picotee, pik-ō-tē′, n. a florist's variety of carnation.
She said I might have known she wanted a Bizarre, and not a Picotee, and I was bringing "coals to Newcastle."
A picotee bloom and rose were gathered in a garden at Norwich. 26.—Mr.
Did not she, in rude horse-play pelting a foolish guardsman with green apples, break a bell-glass that sheltered the picotee cuttings cherished of Jacob's and of Peggy's souls?
"This flower," he said, undoing the tissue paper of the package in his hand, "is the picotee, which keeps fresh five or six days longer than any parting pangs."
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