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Meaning of Mary-bud | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A marigold or its blossom.

obsolete

Examples

“And winking Mary-buds begin / To ope their golden eyes: / With every thing that pretty is, / My lady sweet, arise.”
“The garden lay below me, and the dewy meadows beyond. In the one, bees were busy ruffling the ruddy gillyflowers and April stocks; in the other, the hedge twigs were all frosted with Mary buds, as if Spring had brushed them with the fleece of her wings in passing.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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