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Definition of Nenuphars
1. nenuphar [n] - See also: nenuphar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nenuphars
Literary usage of Nenuphars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1878)
"In fact, as everybody knows, the floating leaves of nenuphars are attached to
the bottom by very long stalks containing large empty spaces, ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... in frailty : these were his delight ; Bold Beauties of Burlesque, pale nenuphars
Could he have gazed upon them day and night The spark immortal. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... allow a narrow stream to pass ; Where spreading crowfoot mars The drowning
nenuphars, Waving the tassels of her silken grass Below her silver stars. ..."
4. The Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1909)
"Close to your hand lies a little volume, bound in some Nile-green skin that has
been powdered with gilded nenuphars and smoothed with hard ivory. ..."
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