fleurer

French

Etymology

Perhaps a variant of flairer, or more likely from fleur (odour) (obsolete in standard modern French but still found in local dialects), from Old French flaour, flaör (whence English flavour), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (odour, that which blows), from Latin flātus.

Verb

fleurer

  1. to give off (an odor)
  2. to waft
  3. to smell, catch a waft of
  4. to sprinkle

Conjugation

Further reading

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