Easter lily
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Easter lily
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like most of the others, Tony is growing the Croft, a white, sturdy, strong-stemmed Easter lily that multiplies at the rate of 150 bulbs from one bulb a season, will grow 20,000 to the acre.
From Time Magazine Archive
They nod, and smile, and then they turn to light a taper, and to consult about the placing of a certain vase from out of which an Easter lily towers.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman
He picked up an Easter lily which Geneviève had brought that morning from Notre Dame, and dropped it into the basin.
From The King in Yellow by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The strange manzanita bushes, the chaparral, the buck-eye with its plumes, the fragrant mountain lily, like an Easter lily, growing wild.
From Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California by Hall, Angelo
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