calices
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Some of the plants were not yet in bloom, their buds curled in pink, pointed spirals held in the pale green calices, but most were already star-flowering and giving off their strong scent.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
One of these, a M. Tiquet, a Councillor of the Parliament, sent her on her fête-day a bouquet, in which the calices of the roses were of large diamonds.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various
Lucâ legimus duos calices, quibus discipulis propinavit,” vii.
From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William
Quicquid habes pulcri fundas, amarante: coronent Narcissi lacrymis calices, sternantque feretrum Tectus ubi lauro Lycidas jacet: adsit ut oti Saltem aliquid, ficta ludantur imagine mentes.
From Verses and Translations by Calverley, Charles Stuart
The motto, “Vesani calices quid non fecere,” a parody on the line, “Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?”
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis
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