PICOTEE Definition & Meaning

picotee

[ pik-uh-tee ]

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noun

a variety of carnation, tulip, etc., having an outer margin of another color.

picotee

/ ˌ��ɪ��əˈ�پ�ː /

noun

a type of carnation having pale petals edged with a darker colour, usually red

adjective

like a picotee; with darker edges

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of picotee¹

1720–30; < French �辱��ǳ�é marked, pricked, past participle of picoter to mark with tiny points, derivative of picot picot; -ee

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of picotee¹

C18: from French �辱��ǳ�é marked with points, from picot

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Picotee, pik-ō-tē′, n. a florist's variety of carnation.

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She said I might have known she wanted a Bizarre, and not a Picotee, and I was bringing "coals to Newcastle."

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A picotee bloom and rose were gathered in a garden at Norwich. 26.—Mr.

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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?

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"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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