Citations:blossom

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English citations of blossom

Noun

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1818
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  1. 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.