lotos
Americannoun
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The high priest carried only his tall staff of polished wood, tipped with brass, and surmounted by a glittering, symbolic design, the "Wheel of the Law," the hub of which is a lotos flower.
From The Dragon Painter by Mary McNeil Fenollosa
This was the lotos, of a peculiar red colour, which the people of Lower Egypt used to wear in wreaths upon his festival.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
I only see the scrambling goat, The lotos on the water float, While an old shepherd with an oat Pipes to the autumn breezes.”
From London Lyrics by George Cruikshank
His complexion is blue, his eyes are like the flowers of the lotos, and his visage burns with an eternal youth.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
Lilies are of all colours in Palestine—one sort is particularized as white with a dark blue spot and streak—the water lily, lotos, which I think I meant, is blue altogether.
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning
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