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Yellow flag   /jˈɛloʊ flæg/   Listen
Yellow flag

noun
1.
Common yellow-flowered iris of Europe and North Africa, naturalized in United States and often cultivated.  Synonyms: Iris pseudacorus, yellow iris, yellow water flag.






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"Yellow flag" Quotes from Famous Books



... place, just below me, are some soldiers squaring off logs to build a shanty—chopping away, and the noise of the axes sounding sharp. I hear the bellowing, unmusical screech of the mule. I mark the thin blue smoke rising from camp fires. Just below me is a collection of hospital tents, with a yellow flag elevated on a stick, and moving languidly in the breeze. Two discharged men (I know them both) are just leaving. One is so weak he can hardly walk; the other is stronger, and carries his comrade's musket. They move slowly along the muddy road toward the depot. The scenery is full of breadth, ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

... 'Clutha' which sailed from the Broomielaw bound for Quebec. The consort, 'Wolfville', upon which they had originally taken passage, arrived in Quebec before them, and lay in the stream, flying the yellow flag of quarantine. Cholera had broken out. "Be still, and see the salvation of the Lord," were the words of the ...
— In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - With an Essay in Character, by Sir Andrew Macphail • John McCrae



Words linked to "Yellow flag" :   Iris pseudacorus, yellow iris, iris, yellow water flag, fleur-de-lis, sword lily, flag



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