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Amy Lowell: V

VThe roses bloom at Malmaison. And not only roses. Tulips, myrtles, geraniums, camelias, rhododendrons, dahlias, double hyacinths. All the year through, under glass, under the sky, flowers…

Brewer's: Succoth

The Jewish feast of tabernacles or tents, which began on the 15th Tisri (September), and lasted eight days. It was kept in remembrance of the sojourn in the wilderness, and was a time of…

Brewer's: Henna

The Persian ladies tinge the tips of their fingers with henna to make them a reddish-yellow. “The leaf of the henna-plant resembles that of the myrtle. The blossom has a powerful fragrance…

Brewer's: Crowns

(worn by heathen deities): APOLLO wore a crown of laurels. BACCHUS, of grapes or ivy. CERES, of blades of wheat. COMUS, of roses. CYBELÊ, of pine leaves. FLORA, of flowers. FORTUNE, of fir…

pepper

(Encyclopedia) pepper, name for the fruits of several unrelated Old and New World plants used as spices or vegetables or in medicine. True pepper is classified in the division Magnoliophyta,…

Brewer's: Astolpho

(in Orlando Furioso). An English duke (son of Otho), who joined Charlemagne against the Saracens. He was carried on the back of a whale to Alcina's isle; but when Alcina tired of him, she…

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