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  • noun Plural form of Mary-bud.

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Examples

  • It is the flower Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote, "And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their golden eyes."

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • Whoever has seen the watery Avon meadows in April, yellow and twinkling with marsh marigolds when "the lark at heaven's gate sings," appreciates why the commentators incline to identify Shakespeare's Mary-buds with the _Caltha_ of these and our own marshes.

    Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

  • I suppose the meadows, with their "winking Mary-buds," will be all cut up into building lots in the good times coming, and Philomel caught and put in a cage to sing to tourists at threepence a head.

    Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • 986: And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their Golden eyes

    Cymbeline (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

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