Egyptian lotus
Americannoun
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either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea blue lotus, having light blue flowers, or N. lotus white lotus, having white flowers.
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“Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York,” which opens on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows how he experimented with Biedermeier and Rococo curves, Egyptian lotus patterns and Gothic trefoils and pointed arches.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2011
Next summer, more coffins were unearthed, all decorated with human masks, wigged in the Egyptian manner and topped by Egyptian lotus flowers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imagine five lakelets covered by Egyptian lotus, and the different varieties of water-lilies.
From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.
The Egyptian lotus garden had to be inundated to be a success.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel
Evidently M. Collignon has not yet learned the grammar of the Egyptian lotus.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
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