Definition of "flower-show" [flower-show]

• A public exhibition of flowers and flowering plants. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Still, it's hard to picture the queen's hand-waving and flower-show excursions inspiring the hysteria that celebrities do."
• "One must never smoke in a public place, where ladies aro or might be, for instance, a flower-show or promenade."
• ""It is the most heavenly blue flower," says Ms. Bowditch, an avid flower-show competitor who once taught horticulture classes at Temple University and lives most of the year in Philadelphia."