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  • noun Plural form of waterlily.

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Examples

  • The work he seemed to reject, in 1970, was not a single-minded oeuvre, but spanned a remarkable range, from delicate and almost serene studies in red crosshatching that look a bit like a sunset imposed on Monet's waterlilies, to thick, roughly painted and dark forms in the early to mid-1960s that suggest not so much abstraction as a futile effort to paint over and blot out suppressed figurative ideas.

    Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips Philip Kennicott 2011

  • Hundreds of Sinhalese sit in a two-story room in meditative positions, softly chanting and offering up mountains of pink lotuses, purple waterlilies, and white jasmines in front of the gilded casket that holds the tooth.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Hundreds of Sinhalese sit in a two-story room in meditative positions, softly chanting and offering up mountains of pink lotuses, purple waterlilies, and white jasmines in front of the gilded casket that holds the tooth.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Hundreds of Sinhalese sit in a two-story room in meditative positions, softly chanting and offering up mountains of pink lotuses, purple waterlilies, and white jasmines in front of the gilded casket that holds the tooth.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • All is not roses and waterlilies for Massachusetts, of course.

    Column: A world with an individual mandate Ezra Klein 2010

  • I love the glass balls in the pond as well, especially now that it has gotten too shady for the waterlilies to bloom much if at all, they add some color.

    Updates And A New Fairest Of The Faire « Fairegarden 2010

  • A powerful waterfall appeared to be part of a dry streambed that is the dominant theme running through the garden, but this waterfall is a component of a separate, self-contained, re-circulating body of water containing Japanese koi fish and tropical waterlilies.

    Green Scene: A Japanese garden's natural serenity 2010

  • One of them, ' The Great Wave off Kanagawa, ' may be as prevalent on dorm-room walls as Monet waterlilies.

    Photo-Op: View Finder 2010

  • Modernism is growing fast in all directions wherever you look, from Van Gogh's exhilarating undergrowth of hectic marks to Cézanne's ethereal geometry and Monet's marvellous waterlilies.

    Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists 2010

  • It is also very shallow over a large area, which is readily apparent by the very large patch of shimmering white waterlilies.

    Country diary: Loch Bran 2010

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