| 单词 | rose of may |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrose of May rose of May n. now rare (a) (chiefly literary and poetic) a rose blooming in May (usually symbolic of precocity); esp. the cinnamon rose, R. majalis; (b) the pheasant's eye narcissus, Narcissus poeticus, a fragrant white-petalled daffodil. ΚΠ 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 157 O Rose of May, Deere Mayd, kind sister, sweet Ophelia. View more context for this quotation 1791 M. Robinson Poems I. 215 At dawn of light fair Ella came, Fresh as the rose of May. 1819 La Belle Assemblée July 64/2 Cinnamon Rose, or Rose of May; emblem of Precocity.—This rose has furnished a subject for many ingenious comparisons. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 991/1 Rose of May. Narcissus poeticus. 1902 School Jrnl. 24 May 601/2 A little maid the master calls up to his knee; As sweet and fair as a rose of May is she. 1918 L. B. Wilder Colour in my Garden 363 Narcissus..poeticus—Poet's Daffodil, Sweet Nancy, Rose-of-May. < as lemmas |
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