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Gloriosa  n.  (Bot.) A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India.





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"Gloriosa" Quotes from Famous Books



... or contrast, a little person in scarlet comes dancing into the picture, which opens to receive her, for she belongs to it. Her hands are full of Gloriosa lilies, fiery red, terra-cotta, yellow, delicate old-rose and green—such a mingling of colour, but nothing discordant—and the child, waving her spoils above her head, sings at the top of her voice something intended to be the chorus ...
— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael
 
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... Salisti al ciel, onde miel preghi ascolti; Tu partoristi il fonte di pietate, E di giustizia il Sol, che rasserena Il secol pien d'errori oscuri et tolti; Tre dolci et cari nomi ha' in te raccolti, Madre, Figliuola e Sposa: Vergine gloriosa, Donna del Re che nostri lacci a sciolti E fatto 'l mondo libero et felice, Nelle cui sante piaghe Prego ch'appaghe ...
— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
 
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... accusing Maria-Gloriosa of adultery, and nobody has calumniated the Empress and her minister, whom God has damned in the other world. Ladislas Ferkoz was his sovereign's lover until he died, and made his august master ridiculous ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume III (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
 
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Words linked to "Gloriosa" :   creeping lily, Gloriosa superba, genus Gloriosa, climbing lily, poisonous plant



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