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Definition of Mayflowers
1. mayflower [n] - See also: mayflower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mayflowers
Literary usage of Mayflowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard (1920)
"CHAPTER II PLYMOUTH mayflowers The first day on which one might hope for mayflowers
came to Plymouth in late April. The day before a bitter northeaster had ..."
2. History of Polled Aberdeen Or Angus Cattle: Giving an Account of the Origin by James Macdonald, James Sinclair (1882)
"MELVILLE—Dandys, Prides, and mayflowers—METHLICK—The Mabel branch of the Pride
... Mayflower, and Isabella families—Sires used—Fame of the mayflowers ..."
3. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"The three southern "mayflowers," the Godspeed, the Constant and the Discovery,
sailed down the Thames, amidst the waving of banners and plaudits of their ..."
4. Nature in Verse: A Poetry Reader for Children by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1895)
"Emily H. Millet THE mayflowers. SAD Mayflower! watched by winter stars. And nursed
by winter gales, With petals of the sleeted spars, And leaves of frozen ..."
5. Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876 by William James Linton (1878)
"... THE mayflowers. The trailing arbutus, or mayflower, grows abundantly in the
vicinity of Plymouth, and teas the first flower that greeted the Pilgrims ..."
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