Picotee

Quick meaning: Picotee is a noun meaning (botany) A flower (such as a carnation) whose margin is a different colour from the flower's basic colour.

Meaning

(botany) A flower (such as a carnation) whose margin is a different colour from the flower's basic colour.

Example Sentences

Louis Carlyle's voice was wonderfully suggestive in its phases of the varying aspects of the speaker himself, and at that moment it conveyed a portrait of Mr Carlyle in his very best early-morning business manner […]. In its crisp yet benign complacency Carrados could almost have sworn to resplendent patent boots, the current shade in suede gloves and a carefully selected picotee.

Word Forms

• picotees
• picketee

Related Words

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