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Full-blown   /fʊl-bloʊn/   Listen
Full-blown

adjective
1.
Fully ripe; at the height of bloom.  Synonym: matured.
2.
Having or displaying all the characteristics necessary for completeness.





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"Full-blown" Quotes from Famous Books



... is but a flutter of invisible garments; even when one is saying "Spring," full-blown summer is hot afoot. In high noon, in the open places, pools of water form in the ice. With glee is hailed the honk of the first wild goose, the coats of ptarmigan and rabbit thin and darken. There is water on the trail of the kit-fox. The subsidiary streams that feed the Mackenzie ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron
... this reason alone, if for no other, the hasty critics who have so handily claimed precedence elsewhere, might profitably review the facts of the circumstance which led to so universal an adoption of the full-blown style in the twelfth and ...
— The Cathedrals of Northern France • Francis Miltoun
... itself by this age, in its character of censor morum, that effeminacy in a practical sense lies either amongst its full-blown faults, or amongst its lurking tendencies. A rich, a polished, a refined age, may, by mere necessity of inference, be presumed to be a luxurious one; and the usual principle, by which moves the whole trivial philosophy which speculates upon the character of a particular ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... will your dwelling, Or breath or tint whose praise we sing; Butterfly shining bright, Full-blown or bursting rosebud, flow'r or wing. Dwell together ye fair, 'Tis a boon to the loveliest given; Perchance ye then may choose your home On the ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo
... simply acting as if I were one. You forget I'm a full-blown debutante. Vievie has already promised me ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet


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