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Definition of Cornflowers
1. cornflower [n] - See also: cornflower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornflowers
Literary usage of Cornflowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"FAVOURITE FLOWERS GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE cornflowers AND KNAPWEEDS Natural Order
COMPOSITE. Genus Centaurea CENTAUREA (name classical ; the ancients believed ..."
2. Memoirs of Bertha Von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life by Bertha von Suttner (1910)
"We were to wear misty white dresses, and for ornaments — the idea originated with
us children — a wreath of cornflowers in our hair, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1881)
"Ah cornflowers blue and poppies rod, Weep, for our little Love is dead. ...
Blue cornflowers weep, red poppies sigh, For all we love must ever die. ..."
4. Modern Masterpieces of Short Prose Fiction by Henry James Collection (Library of Congress) (1911)
"I began picking cornflowers, but they kept melting away from between my fingers,
... No matter, I put that moon on my head instead of cornflowers. ..."
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