knosp
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of knosp
1800–10; < German Knospe bud; akin to knop
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Knosp, nosp, n. the unopened bud of a flower: an architectural ornament resembling such.
From Project Gutenberg
V. Another day, and ye From knosp and turret’s brow Shall, with your fleet of crowding wings, Air’s viewless billows plough, With no keen-fang’d regretting Our darken’d hill-sides quitting, —Away in fond companionship as cheerily as now!
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