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Cornflower   Listen
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Cornflower  n.  (Bot.) A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cornflower" Quotes from Famous Books



... kind there, and so they do here. Everybody has it. My prettiest one is much like yours, only it's poppy-coloured. Katherine's is cornflower blue this year, and she's got a black one and a lilac one. When you see all the others prancing about in the same sort of things, you won't ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... eventually grow to understand. Of course I don't say, if the woman came along—the right one—I mightn't go under, I'm philosopher enough to admit that possibility. I want her tall, hair like corn-silk, eyes like the cornflower, of brilliant intellect, reserved, and dignified, and patient. I want a woman, not humorous, but who understands humor, and I have never heard of one. So, you see, it's all smoke; and I never talk woman these times unless I'm smoking,"—with a gesture which explained ...
— The Princess Elopes • Harold MacGrath



Words linked to "Cornflower" :   Uvularia grandiflora, genus Uvularia, cornflower aster, Centaurea, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus, bachelor's button, wild oats, bellwort, Uvularia, genus Centaurea, strawflower, flower



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