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RECENT POSTSefflorescence
e-fluh-RES-ens
noun
a state of flowering; a time of social renaissance; the result of development
1913DomneiIt is upon this darker and rebellious side of domnei, of a religion pathetically dragged dustward by the luxuriance and efflorescence of over-passionate service, that Nicolas has touched in depicting Demetrios.1919The Shadow of the CathedralGabriel looked at the garden surrounded by its arcades of white stone, with its rough buttresses of dark granite, in the chinks of which the rain had left an efflorescence of fungus, like little tufts of black velvet.1954Lord of the Flies...the water. It was clear to the bottom and bright with the efflorescence of tropical weed and coral.Labels: James Branch Cabell, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, William Golding
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