Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A commercial name for the large beans of the Entada scandens, natural order Leguminosæ, used for making scent-bottles, purses, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (
Entada scandens ) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the
seeds or largebeans of atropical vine (Entada scandens), used for makingpurses ,scent bottles , etc.
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Examples
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Their cacoon is their buds … and their rifle … I know the poem-pledges of the Marines very well, Mr. Lesly.
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Wrapped me up inside the lawn chair with strips of torn sheets so I was enveloped in a white cacoon, then sprinkled bougenvilla blossoms on top of me as they lowered me into the little boat that would take 45 minutes across the bay to a waiting ambulance.
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Check out both practical pieces (a cool cacoon shaped brown wool coat) and some that are more fun (beaded silk shirts) that are up to 65% off.
Sales & Shopping Events This Week The Huffington Post 2011
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We didn't believe (until we were much older) in wasting time cutting and burning firewood, so I was wrapped up in my sleeping bag, and my friend was yelling across the room about getting up to go bird hunting, and that it was warmer outside than inside, and I protested from inside the protective cacoon of my bag.
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We didn't believe (until we were much older) in wasting time cutting and burning firewood, so I was wrapped up in my sleeping bag, and my friend was yelling across the room about getting up to go bird hunting, and that it was warmer outside than inside, and I protested from inside the protective cacoon of my bag.
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Check out both practical pieces (a cool cacoon shaped brown wool coat) and some that are more fun (beaded silk shirts) that are up to 65% off.
Sales & Shopping Events This Week The Huffington Post 2011
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They don't know him as a man who's spun a cacoon of fraudulent claims and fraudulent hope.
Will James David Manning Be Tried As A Martyr ... Or As An Idiot? 2009
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To cacoon and even entomb one's mind in tendentiously conceived definitions and platitudes, likewise imagining that doing so is tantamount to serious inquiry and thought, is the very hallmark of the ideological religionist, to indulge the term in a simple and purely pejorative sense.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Wrapped me up inside the lawn chair with strips of torn sheets so I was enveloped in a white cacoon, then sprinkled bougenvilla blossoms on top of me as they lowered me into the little boat that would take 45 minutes across the bay to a waiting ambulance.
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I also believe she lacks any real experience with international culture (Traveling in the cacoon of a First Lady does not count).
Quote Of The Day 2009
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