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Flora

In Roman mythology, the goddess of flowers, youth, and spring. Her festival, the Floralia, instituted in 238 BC, was initially celebrated at irregular intervals but became annual from 173 BC. It lasted from 28 April to 3 May and included licentious staged exhibitions.

The goddess was originally the Greek maiden Chloris, who was caught by the amorous Zephyrus, god of the west wind, and began to sprout flowers in his embrace, transforming into Flora.



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Flora Casby had been the beloved of his boyhood; and Flora was the daughter and only child of wooden-headed old Christopher (so he was still occasionally spoken of by some irreverent spirits who had had dealings with him, and in whom familiarity had bred its proverbial result perhaps), who was reputed to be rich in weekly tenants, and to get a good quantity of blood out of the stones of several unpromising courts and alleys.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
Why, Robert sent word down by his daughter Nancy and she said you wanted a girl--didn't she Flora Jane?
Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
He uttered to himself the name of Flora in so many touching and dramatic keys, that he became at length fairly melted with tenderness, and could have sung aloud.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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