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Definition of Maidenhairs
1. maidenhair [n] - See also: maidenhair
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maidenhairs
Literary usage of Maidenhairs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gardening in Egypt: A Handbook of Gardening for Lower Egypt by Walter Draper (1895)
"... compost and leaving an inch or two below the rim of the pot to hold the water,
but keep the fronds as dry as possible. All maidenhairs in the autumn, ..."
2. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"... and their venation is almost always pinnate ; the only ferns that vary much
from the central type being some like the maidenhairs, which are tufty and ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"Not only may it be parted with great facility, but, after a time, on the surface
of other pots in your window yon will see little seedling maidenhairs come ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1839)
"... and maidenhairs—no, hut with the softest harmonising tinte of lichens and
close-creeping mosses. The doorway into the .tower (as is usual in all perfect ..."
5. Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick: To by Benjamin Stillingfleet (1775)
"... after which the golden maidenhairs fill the vacant places. Mountains, hills,
vallies, and all the inequalities of the earth, though ibme think they take ..."
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