florists' foam

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noun

a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.

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We need to take a razor and make a boundary in the shaving foam, people.
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The train had long passed Hornberg, and far below the streams tumbled in white foam down the limestone rocks.
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He had nearly bitten his swollen tongue in two falling over an unseen peat-cutting, and blood-flecked foam gathered on his lips.
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Harry was white with dust, blood was dripping from his left hand and his horse, white with foam, stood trembling.
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The storm which had for some time past been brewing, had fairly brewed itself up at last, and the wild sea was covered with foam.
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Stanley Hall and Jim Welton stood leaning over the taffrail, looking down into the black foam-streaked water.
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