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chaliced

British  
/ ˈtʃælɪst /

adjective

  1. (of plants) having cup-shaped flowers

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The frost of age Has touched the once-brown hair, And left it white as are the chaliced lilies.

From Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by Various

All Orient odors, spikenard, balm and myrrh, Perfumes of Araby and farthest Ind— Sweet incense from the chaliced heart of her She pours upon the feet of every wind.

From The Path of Dreams Poems by Giltner, Leigh Gordon

While Zephyr broods o'er moonlight rill The flowerets droop as if to die, And from their chaliced cup distil The tears of sensibility.

From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir

The moon bears through the violet night A pearly urn of chaliced light; And from your dark-railed balcony You stoop and wave your fan at me.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

But here a peace deeper than peace is furled, Enshrined and chaliced from the changeful hour; The snow is still, yet lives in its own light.

From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Scott, Duncan Campbell

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