Etymology
Origin of bladdery
Example Sentences
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Pope's fame was due to personal assiduities, and 'a certain bladdery swell of management.'
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
Fruit rounded, bladdery, 3-celled, few-seeded pods; ripe in autumn.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
There was the first Sir Joshua ever drew of himself—and his last; this invaluable last is going—black cracks and masses of bladdery paint.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Bloodless and bladdery things ran hither and thither noiselessly.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
Pemphigus is a contagious disease attended with bladdery eruptions appearing on the second or third day, as large as filberts, which, remain many days, and then effuse a thin ichor.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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