closed gentian
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of closed gentian
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Its blue is less mysterious and deep than the closed gentian’s, and yet how many name it the cup of autumn delight!
From Project Gutenberg
Her own beauty was kept trimly neat, like a closed gentian.
From Project Gutenberg
It was a story of the closed gentian, the title of which she announced, as she always did, loudly, and with an amusing little air of self-satisfaction.
From Project Gutenberg
The closed gentian comes at the same time, and the blue and purple asters are in all their glory.
From Project Gutenberg
At last she came with a handful of late-blooming closed gentians.
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
