单词 | japanese flower |
释义 | > as lemmasJapanese flower Japanese flower n. a piece of coloured paper which unfolds like a flower when placed in water. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > artificial flowers and fruit paper flower1580 shell-flowers1739 artificial1840 wax flower1843 stone-fruit1851 flower1881 Japanese flower1917 1917 N. Douglas South Wind xxii. 271 Those Japanese flowers..those paper flowers, I mean, which we used to put in our finger-bowls... They look like shrivelled specks of cardboard. But in the water they begin..to unfold themselves into unexpected patterns of flowers of all colours. 1968 D. Hopkinson Incense-tree iv. 42 A Japanese flower in a glass of water slowly uncurling to reveal its coloured pattern. < as lemmas |
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