Easter lily
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Easter lily
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like most of the others, Tony is growing the Croft, a white, sturdy, strong-stemmed Easter lily that multiplies at the rate of 150 bulbs from one bulb a season, will grow 20,000 to the acre.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Easter lily is managed the same way, except to hasten its flowers it should be kept at not lower than 60° at night.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
Before that time, there was a lily known as the Easter lily, but whose right name is the lilium candidum or Madonna lily.
From Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks by B. J. (Bert Joseph) Griswold
Her slender throat, like the stem of a white flower, arose from the faded brown of her dress as an Easter lily unfolds from its dull sheath.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks
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