Meaning of holly-berry | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“We saw the villain pluck a cluster of holly-berries, which the misled angel fastened in her brooch.”

“The table was loaded with the usual substantial fare; but Irene’s light hands had assisted the housekeeper in decorating the board with holly-berries and greenery, and such winter flowers as the gardener could find for her in an age when the first hothouse ever built in England was yet a novelty.”

“Every part of her was alive, springing with vitality: her curling black shining hair, her glittering snow-white forehead, her flashing, sparkling, dark-blue eyes, her lips like holly-berries, her strong clean long-fingered hands at rest now on the table.”

“Bright-red fruits hang on long and look like holly-berries.”

“She kept her colours pale and offset her earlier fear of too much rabbit brown and green by introducing the red-breasted robin into two more of the pictures, red gooseberries into another and holly-berries into a third.”

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