Meaning of watercressy | Babel Free

Definitions

With watercress.

Examples

“Did these French trout expect⟳ me to dress my fly⟳ in garlic or tomato sauce before they would look⟳ at it? For that trout must be in such a stream—so clear, so sparkling, so flowing, so curvy, so watercressy—was as clear as that the Republic is a dreadful come-down from the Empire.”

“Two quick hot soups . . . one’s garlicky, one’s watercressy / Those long-time salad favorites, watercress and garlic, take⟳ the leading role in these two quick soups for fall⟳.”

“Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give⟳ the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock⟳.”

“Perched up there she could gaze down on the rivulet bubbling through its green watercressy bed, with soft water-meadows, a grazing pony or two, and the fields rising in a smoothly, well-ordered chalk-country way to the near horizon.”

“Now we’ll hear⟳ all the newses from Ballyvadlea – births, deaths, marriages, childer an’ by-childer, the price of eggs, turkeys, hins, guinea-hins, what the priest roared outa him last⟳ Sunda, various unrests, another landlord shot, a bullock maimed, who won the hurlin’ at Mullinahone, who was stretched an’ who The Hayro, an’ who put⟳ the bad eye on them geese in the meado’ other side o’ the watercressy strayme there …”

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