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millefleurs

/ˌmilˈflər/
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Millefleurs is a design style that's packed with tiny flowers and plants. Renaissance tapestries are famous for their millefleurs backgrounds.

In French, millefleurs means "thousand flowers." Woven tapestries from several time periods, including the late Middle Ages, early Renaissance, and 19th-century England, commonly featured human figures in the foreground with millefleurs designs behind them. They're characterized by irregular patterns of small flowers on green backgrounds. North Indian carpets from the 17th and 18th centuries often used millefleur designs as well.

Definitions of millefleurs
  1. noun
    a pattern of flowers and leaves used to decorate objects, such as tapestries and ceramics
  2. adjective
    having a pattern of flowers and leaves, especially as decorations on tapestries and ceramics
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