Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any plant of the genus Aster: so called on account of the lateness of its blooming.
- noun One of the ice-crystals of a frost-plant. See
frost-plant .
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Examples
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Though still the frost-flower blinded the window pane,
Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh Various 1912
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The wayside was bright with goldenrod, with the red tassels of the sumac, with the purple frost-flower and feathery clematis.
Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendour of winter had passed out of sight,
Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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There is my pledge, "she said, setting down her basket, and putting a frost-flower into a button-hole of his threadbare coat.
Winning His Way Charles Carleton Coffin 1859
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