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golden stars

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noun

  1. a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.


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The tower was decorated with five golden stars, each symbolizing a year of World War II, and flanked on either side by bronze statues of soldiers and a woman representing the “Motherland.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2022

As always, flags flutter from almost every building and shop windows are decorated with golden stars.

From BBC • May 6, 2022

“It’s a romance overwhelming in its intensity, a heart that swells until it has to burst,” the ad read while five golden stars lay atop.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2017

During the service, held in the palace’s Chapel Royal, chants in Latin from an 18-person choir swelled up toward turquoise ceilings, adorned with golden stars and gilded cherubs.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2016

He was crying quite silently, his face gleaming with tears, and in his arms, wrapped in purple velvet spangled with golden stars, was what Harry knew to be Dumbledore’s body.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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