Obs. [f. FLOWER sb. + GENTLE a.; app. in imitation of the Fr. name fleur noble. No Fr. *fleur gentille is known.] = FLORAMOR.
1561. Grant of Arms to Dr. Caius, in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 179. Crest: a dove A. beaked and membered G, with a flower gentle in his mouth.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. xviii. 168. These pleasant … floures are called … in English floure Gentill, Floramor, & Purple veluet floure.
1630. W. T., Justif. Relig. Professed, v. 36. Promising them so doing to receiue at the appearing of the Arch-Pastor a Garland that shall not wither, or of Flower-gentle whose beauty and colour doth not fade nor wither away.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), 1. Flower gentle, or flower amour,* Amaranthus purpureus.
