chrysalid
Americannoun
adjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of chrysalid
1770–80; representing stem of Greek chrȳsallís chrysalis
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Typical chrysalid hostess is short, black-haired Gloria Gooze, 20, refugee from movie ambitions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The breaking of egg or chrysalid is in itself a moving event; for to attain to the light is for all these creatures "a prodigious travail."
From Fabre, Poet of Science by Bernard Miall
Wachique was set in front of her, to receive tante-gra'mère when the potentate's chrysalid should be lowered.
From Old Kaskaskia by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
At this demand, the shriveled woman raised her bony form, flung off her rags, and grew tall and radiant, smiling as she broke forth from the dark chrysalid sheath.
From Christ in Flanders by Ellen Marriage
Yes, my friend, I can live no longer this dull chrysalid life, in comparison with which, at times, even that past dark dream seems tolerable—for amid its lurid smoke were flashes of brightness.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
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