blossomest
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[edit]blossomest
- Most like a blossom.
- 1871 February 25, Myron B. Benton, “A Midwinter-Day”, in Appletons' Journal of Literature, Science and Art, page 227:
- I fancy that, in the vital kernel of that inanimate ball of fur, which Audubon says he rolls himself into, he is all the while dreaming the sweetest of dreams — living in the rankest, blossomest, honeyest clover, fenced about with delightful tumbled-down stone-walls, […]
- 1950, Judson Crews, A Poet's Breath, Motive Book Shop (1950), unknown page:
- The winter that strikes the blossomest season
- is the one most dreaded for wanton destruction
- 1994, Dennis Potter, 15 March 1994, an interview with Melvyn Bragg. Broadcast by Channel 4 on 5 April 1994
- ... instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it.
- 2000 February 14, Barbara Martin, “Re: Nat's holiday”, in alt.support.arthritis[2] (Usenet):
- In my opinion, one of the nicest sights wil[sic] be in the Cotswolds, just north of Oxford, where the blossom is the blossomest, the rolling countryside is the prettiest and the cottages are the most picturesque.
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- (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of blossom
- 1840, Francis Hastings Doyle, "To —", in Miscellaneous Verses, Blatch and Lampert (1840), page 50:
- Like some young flower, thou blossomest,
- Without a fear on earth;
- 1861, J. T. Burgess, Life Scenes and Social Sketches: A Book for English Hearths and Homes, W. Kent & Co., page 33:
- You live and you die — cold winter is your tomb; but, when spring comes, with its genial showers, and dissolves thy bonds, thou arisest and blossomest more sweetly than before.
- 1907, Louis M. Elshemus, "Mollie", in All About Girls: Unpoetical and Poetical Maidens, Eastman Lewis (1907), page 163:
- That blossomest above the calm Pacific's beach
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blossomest.
- 1840, Francis Hastings Doyle, "To —", in Miscellaneous Verses, Blatch and Lampert (1840), page 50: