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Mary-bud
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English
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en Mary bud
Noun
en obsolete A marigold or its blossom.
II 3 23-26 And winking Mary-buds begin / To ope their golden eyes: / With every thing that pretty is, / My lady sweet, arise.
en 1899 Bernard Capes At a Winter's Fire The garden lay below me, and the dewy meadows beyond. In the one, bees were busy ruffling the ruddy gillyflowers and April stocks; in the other, the hedge twigs were all frosted with Mary buds, as if Spring had brushed them with the fleece of her wings in passing.
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