- plural of eardrop.
eardrops
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Becker anticipates poodle-dog is now growing, along with other so-called fire followers, like fire poppies, golden eardrops and whispering bells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025
T'want only yisterday Squire Mullins'es cow hed to eat up the top of my pennyroyal geranium and trod down my eardrops and lady-slippers, and now they ain't anything left but bachelor's-buttons that's worth looking at.
From The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories by Various
But why does not the painter revert to the childhood of Vulcan, when he was hiding in the glistening cavern beneath the roll of ocean, fashioning resplendent eardrops for silver-footed Thetis?
From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Govett, Ernest
He remembered that she wore no jewellery, except sparkling blue sapphire eardrops.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
Whereupon he sang out at the top of his voice- "Bones made up his dais, with mud it's plastered o'er, Old shoes are his eardrops; a jackal, nothing more!"
From The Junior Classics — Volume 1 by Patten, William
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