night-blooming love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Blooming or blossoming in the night.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Blooming in the night.
  • adjective (Bot.) See Note under Cereus.

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Examples

  • Archie Coleman, who filled his quarters with Turkish antiques and tended to be a braggart, was put in charge of overseeing another chain of agents code-named “Cereus,” after a night-blooming cactus in the American West.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Datura waved the sisters to the couch by a glass coffee table piled with books on night-blooming plants.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • The cool, moist night smelled of rain-wet brick, the Mississippi, and night-blooming jasmine.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • The cool, moist night smelled of rain-wet brick, the Mississippi, and night-blooming jasmine.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Datura waved the sisters to the couch by a glass coffee table piled with books on night-blooming plants.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • The cool, moist night smelled of rain-wet brick, the Mississippi, and night-blooming jasmine.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Archie Coleman, who filled his quarters with Turkish antiques and tended to be a braggart, was put in charge of overseeing another chain of agents code-named “Cereus,” after a night-blooming cactus in the American West.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • At the gate, Reem broke off a small branch of night-blooming jasmine and handed it to me.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Datura waved the sisters to the couch by a glass coffee table piled with books on night-blooming plants.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • The cool, moist night smelled of rain-wet brick, the Mississippi, and night-blooming jasmine.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

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