artificial florist

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artificial florist (plural artificial florists)

  1. Someone who makes or sells artificial flowers.
    • 1863, Virginia Penny, The employments of women: a cyclopaedia of woman's work:
      Some stores in New York are confined to the sale of materials for artificial florists.
    • 1916, Thomas Oliver, Occupations from the Social, Hygienic and Medical Points of View:
      All artificial florists are not good feather dressers. Feather dressing is an art by itself and has to be learned by apprenticeship.

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