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ˈorange-ˌflower
1. The white flower of the orange-tree; = orange-blossom.
1626Bacon Sylva §18 And the like I conceive of Orenge-Flowers. 1757A. Cooper Distiller ii. vi. (1760) 128 Take twelve Pounds of Orange-flowers, and twenty four Quarts of Water. 1842Longfellow Quadroon Girl iii, Odours of orange-flowers..Reached them. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xl, As on a maiden in the day When first she wears her orange-flower.
2. Mexican orange-flower (tree), a handsome white-flowered shrub, Choisya ternata, family Rutaceæ (Miller Plant-n. 1884).
3. Short for orange-flower water (or ? cordial).
1712Addison Spect. No. 328, I cannot undertake to recite all her medicinal Preparations, as Salves,..Cordials, Ratafia, Persico, Orange-flower, and Cherry-Brandy.
4. Comb.: orange-flower bread, -cake, that made or flavoured with orange-flowers; orange-flower oil, the fragrant oil distilled from orange-flowers, neroli oil; orange flower skin food = orange skin food; orange-flower tree, (a) dial. the Syringa or Mock-orange; (b) (see sense 2 above); orange-flower water, the aqueous solution of orange-flowers; the fragrant watery distillate left over in the preparation of neroli oil.
1750Mrs. Delany Autobiog. & Corr. (1861) II. 571 Making *orange-flower bread, of my own orange flowers.
1718Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts 68 Wet it..with Orange-Flower Water, for the *Orange-Flower-Cakes.
1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 461 *Orange-flower oil, is extracted by the distillation of the flowers of the orange-tree.
1908Sears, Roebuck Catal. 798/1 *Orange Flower Skin Food..acts as skin nourisher and wrinkle remover.
1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., *Orange-flower tree, the Syringa. 1880Britten & H. Plant-n., Orange-flower Tree, Philadelphus coronarius..from its perfume resembling that of orange-blossoms. It is also called Mock Orange.
1595Copley Wits, Fits, & Fancies 79 He sent her two bottles of *Orange flower water by his page. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 908 The oil of orange-flowers, called neroli, is extracted from the fresh flowers of the citrus aurantium... The aqueous solution, known under the name of orange-flower water, is used as a perfume. |