picotee

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flower (such as a carnation) whose margin is a different colour from the flower's basic colour.
    — 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.

词形变化

picotees plural picketee alternative,obsolete

词源

Borrowed from French picoté (“marked with points”), past participle of picoter.
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