Meaning of crocusy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling or characteristic of crocuses.
   rare
2. Featuring crocuses.
   rare

Examples

“You don’t think⟳ that perhaps a big chou and ends of pale yellow chiffon—the nice spring⟳ crocusy yellow—would improve⟳ me?”

“Now you have⟳ come⟳ to see⟳ / Out yonder where I go, / You ’ll find⟳ your way to follow⟳ me— / There ’s the world for you to outgrow, / There ’s Power to be overcome⟳, / There ’s more of you to be, / More of man-total sum / Of soul ere you come⟳ to me / The way I go, wholly out there / In the crocusy air— / There ’s to reach⟳ and to be / More of you yet, more of me.”

“He designed a dress for her, and had it made as a studio property of his own⟳—a sort⟳ of crocusy affair, mauve silk, slashed with purple streaks—a dancer’s skirt, rather full—and she has such pretty legs.”

“When you swap⟳ your winter woolies for the crocusy cottons of spring⟳, treat⟳ your room to the same sort⟳ of seasonal freshening-up.”

“You have⟳ dressed festive altars in colored wreaths, painted them fresh with flowery threads. A golden, crocusy line goes forth, and here a purple row of violets, flushed scarlet meets milky white.”

“She wore what was probably her best guesting robe, in crocusy blues and purples, and a leather belt chased with women’s chevrons.”

“Spring⟳ should have⟳ begun, yesterday, in earnest but the weather hangs back this year and so far there has not been much “Spring⟳ by advance installments.” There hasn’t been a real, balmy, crocusy, johnnyjumpup, Spring⟳ day, yet, and this is the 22nd.o f^([sic]) March⟳.”

“Having reported all this, consider⟳ the significance on such a wonderful, balmy, crocusy day. Lady Bird Johnson can look⟳ out from the second-floor White House porch and visualize big beds of tulips in bloom both on the wide lawn and in every planting area in the land⟳.”

“Each year Harrods has participated in the Festival of Stores and to advertise its own⟳ contribution of a Festival of Flowers another whole page in the Evening Standard proclaimed: Everything’s looking rosy, daffodilly, crocusy, forget-me-notty, snowdroppy, marigoldy, carnationy, narcissusy, hollyhocky, buttercuppy, irisy, geraniumy, chrysanthemumy, foxglovey, honeysuckly, hyacinthy, lupiny, rhododendrony, and astery at Harrods for the next eleven days.”

“I had swallowed the laudanum and was drifting into sweet untroubled dreams of rocking Swing-O-Matics, Home-and-School Association meetings, Easter egg hunts in crocusy backyards, yearly pilgrimages to Storybook Gardens, and cute guys in spandex.”

“On one of these walks, towards the end⟳ of the month, they sat peacefully together under a pear tree in a ‘crocusy field, perfect stillness, grey, hazy, mysterious’.”

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