Citations:blossom
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English citations of blossom
Noun[edit]
blossom (plural blossoms)
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| ME « | 15th c. | 16th c. | 17th c. | 18th c. | 19th c. | 20th c. | 21st c. |
- A flower, especially as indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC; republished as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus [...] In Two Volumes, new (2nd) edition, volume I, London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, 1823, →OCLC, page 95:
- Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves—sights which before always yielded me supreme delight—so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.