blue flower

noun, sometimes capitalized B&F

Definition of blue flower

: the mystic vague object of romanticist longing especially in the 19th century —usually used with preceding the

always in search of the blue flower
—Willi Apel

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Origin and Etymology of blue flower

translation of German blaue blume, symbol of poetry in Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802), fragmentary novel by Baron Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) †1801 German poet