Meaning of orangeblossom | Babel Free

Definitions

Uncommon form of orange blossom.

countable, form-of, uncommon, uncountable

Examples

“The underskirt is plaited in front and trimmed with rich lace, caught up by sprays of orangeblossom. The train⟳ is long and plain. The high bodice has folds of silk from the right shoulder to the waist, and the front is filled in with lace, fastened by a spray of orangeblossom on the collar at the left side. Three-quarter sleeves with lace cuffs, ornamented by a spray of orangeblossom. Orangeblossom in the hair, with a long tulle veil.”

“Ethel[’]s raiments were of bridal white, the sprig of orangeblossom was gracefully fastened by a tender hand.”

“Got up as a young bride, man, veil orangeblossoms, drove out the road to Malahide.”

“In Seville / he lifted the whole weight of orangeblossom scent / and went off with it and spangled dolphins spouting crystal / and some cascade music frozen into tiles.”

“I am literally a child of Esquire, or hidden sin of Mr. Esky’s, since my first drinks wers^([sic]) stolen bottles of Tanqueray, Beefeater, Cutty Sark, Lemon Hart Jamaica, molassesdark Myers, Benedictine, Drambuie, Cointreau, Triple Sec, Hennessy, Courvoisier, Grand Marnier, that orangeblossom Scotch liqueur, […] Death isn’t easy to give⟳ up. We all know⟳ how he felt sipping away at it, verse after verse. And we know⟳ it more strongly some days than others, when the romance floods back with a knockout whiff of orangeblossom scotch, […]”

“You and I, sister, sink⟳ / in its round warmth, as in proper work⟳, / of survival we make⟳ peace: / there are no markets replete / with oranges and their incense of orangeblossom, / nor purplish song of the tomato, / nor rich green offering / of lettuce in the air / with their loosened drop of rain⟳, / where the smell⟳ of mitraille / and dry blood / have⟳ emptied the sky.”

“[I]t ends with you on your knees in a cavern of porphyry at dusk by the sea odor of orangeblossom and fishspawn reading pageproofs. […] Odor of orangeblossom and of caverns beneath the sea.”

“The window’s shutters hadn’t yet been closed against the day’s heat, and the faint, wavering calls of a waterseller from the causeway below drifted in along with scents of orangeblossom and baking spicebread.”

““What this room really wants is wallboard,” Mrs. Halloran measured a new piece of orangeblossom paper, “to make⟳ it level.[…]” […] As Mrs. Halloran wetted the orangeblossom wallpaper, she was waiting for banana-coloured paint⟳ on the bottom half of her kitchen walls to dry, and the top half was covered in wallboard Laura had just painted white since the brown looked too dingy. […] Mrs. Halloran held up a strip⟳ of dripping orangeblossom paper.”

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