Definitions
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- noun A species of
flower -bearinghawthorn withedible berries , taxonomic name Crataegus monogyna.
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Examples
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A year later they had stood once more under that hawthorn tree, and again he had shaken the mayblossom down on her, but this time he had laughed.
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As white as mayblossom she was, and beauty went forth from her like fragrance from the shaken bough.
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As white as mayblossom she was, and beauty went forth from her like fragrance from the shaken bough.
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As white as mayblossom she was, and beauty went forth from her like fragrance from the shaken bough.
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They never smells the vi'lets nor the mayblossom -- they on'y gits their own petrol stench wi 'the flavour o' the dust mixed in.
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As he moved almost on tip-toe through Mary's garden, now all fragrant with golden wall-flowers, lilac, and mayblossom, he paused a moment, -- looking up at the picturesque gabled eaves and latticed windows.
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They might have found out if the mayblossom-scented breeze hadn’t carried to their ears the rattle of wooden wheels on cobblestone.
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