| 单词 | no flowers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasno flowers (by request) a. A blossom considered independently of the plant, and esp. in regard to its beauty or perfume. no flowers (by request): an intimation that flowers are not desired at a funeral; hence, no outward sign of mourning or regret. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > flowers > no flowers no flowers (by request)1900 c1275 Luue Ron 151 in Old Eng. Misc. 97 Þu art swetture þane eny flur. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 214/491 A fair Medwe he saiȝ with swete floures. a1300 Floriz & Bl. 434 Flures To strawen in þe maidenes bures. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 43v As the bees loue the swetest of the floures. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 186 Als fresch as flouris that in May vp spredis. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. ii. 170 Strew me ouer With Maiden Flowers . View more context for this quotation 1656 A. Cowley Another Epicure in Anacreontics Beauteous Flowers, why do we spread, Upon the Mon'ments of the Dead? 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Visct. Cobham 6 We..always set the Gem above the Flow'r. 1900 C. Hanbury Let. 5 Aug. in Autobiogr. (1901) xv. 224 When the Home-going is, I want to say with more than common emphasis—‘by desire’—no flowers; also no bell tolling. 1923 H. C. Bailey Mr. Fortune's Pract. iii. 84 No flowers, by request. Don't be an owl. 1928 E. Wallace Gunner xxii I shall..explain to the police why I shot you, and there will be no flowers from Scotland Yard. 1970 Times 17 Nov. 20/2 Cremation at 11.30 a.m. at Exeter Crematorium, Thursday 19th November. No flowers by request. < as lemmas |
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