peach blossom

noun

First recorded in 1655–65

His spirit was the spirit of Omakitsu; his pays natal was near to the peach-blossom-fountain of the untranslatable poem.

And steadily reigning throughout the ship, like the very spirit of death, was that aroma of peach-blossom.

The banks were smiling with peach blossom: the willow leaves were a mist of gold and green.

There was peach blossom in her hair, and she had the loveliest bouquet of flowers—real flowers, that scented the air——but there!

It is extracted from the bitter-almond, (as has been stated,) peach-blossom, and the leaves of the laurocerasus.

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