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
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
Around her neck is a necklace of gold richly set,—and she has magnificent golden armlets and pearl eardrops.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
He remembered that she wore no jewellery, except sparkling blue sapphire eardrops.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
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