单词 | gum-flowers |
释义 | > as lemmasgum-flowers gum-flowers n. Scottish artificial flowers; also attributive. ΚΠ 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 316 A crown of gum-flowers, which was afterwards put on her. 1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xii. 120 There was she, painted like a Jezebel, with gum-flowers on her head. 1829 T. Carlyle German Playwrights in Foreign Rev. Jan. 103 Broken Italian gumflowers. 1864 R. Browning Let. 13 Oct. in H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. (1897) II. i. 16 As if they want seed in a gum~flower manufactory. < as lemmas |
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