golden club

American  

noun

1. an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.

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Etymology

Origin of golden club

1830–40;

Example Sentences

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golden club

The marshes are all gay with it: it is the golden club.

From Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California by Leighton, Caroline C.

Her hair, gathered into a golden club at the nape of the neck, glittered in the sun, her eyes deepened like the violet depths of mid-heaven.

From The Maid-At-Arms by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

First, coming down the street will be seen about thirty infantry bearing each a golden club, and shouting: "Get out; get out!"

From Modern Persia by Daniel, Mooshie G.

He stood in the doorway and pounded the ground with his golden club until the whole castle shook.

From Czechoslovak Fairy Tales by Fillmore, Parker

In this case the eyes of sipping butterflies occasionally get their decoration of a tiny golden club, but more frequently their tongues.

From My Studio Neighbors by Gibson, William Hamilton