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Definition of Bog candles
1. Noun. Orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bog Candles
Literary usage of Bog candles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"... and blushes that are as false as your mother's teeth, and eye-kindlings that
are bog-candles ? My friend Quill is a man of literary tastes. ..."
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