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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Asteraceae — thedahlias . - proper noun A female
given name .
Etymologies
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Blue Dahlia is a blackish blue creme, much darker than the image shows.
Pandora Young: A New Nail Polish Wardrobe for Fall Pandora Young 2010
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Blue Dahlia is a blackish blue creme, much darker than the image shows.
Pandora Young: A New Nail Polish Wardrobe for Fall Pandora Young 2010
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The Black Dahlia is an awful movie, and Curtis Hanson would indeed have done a better job.
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I can accept the fact that DePalma is the consummate rip-off artest, but the acting in Dahlia is laughable.
Top 10 Overlooked Movies of the Last Five Years » Scene-Stealers 2009
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The Dahlia is already often fully booked through prime-time dining hours, but the Urbanspoon option gives them an easy way to fill in the gaps, drawing in diners who might not otherwise have thought of visiting that night.
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Blue Dahlia is a blackish blue creme, much darker than the image shows.
Pandora Young: A New Nail Polish Wardrobe for Fall Pandora Young 2010
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In the beta version, at least, the Dahlia is paying the same $1/head to Urbanspoon as it pays Open Table.
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Dahlia is of course a recognizable cliche (though she would probably argue vociferously against “JAP”), and she hopefully confronts and taunts the reader as such, acting as a narrative challenge.
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It seems Dahlia is constantly trying to convince everyone, and perhaps herself that her illness is not a metaphor, but an illness?
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The Black Dahlia is also, it turns out, "one of the finest Cinemascope films of recent years," and "what prevents the transfer from getting perfect marks is the shaky rendering of certain digital fadeouts and effects: see, for example, the distracting white lines dancing across the black shadow obscuring the murderer's face during the central staircase set piece."
hernesheir commented on the word Dahlia
A genus of noctuid moth.
August 23, 2010