Lexicographical Neighbors of Baguets
Literary usage of Baguets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"The modern mode of classing the late blowers, by the Dutch florists, is as
follows : " Prime baguets, from the French word baguette, a rod, or wand. ..."
2. Journal of a Horticultural Tour Through Some Parts of Flanders, Holland, and by Patrick Neill (1823)
"All the spendid large tulips' called by the Dutch Primo baguets (from the ...
from one excellent breeder ; all those beautiful varieties called baguets ..."
3. The Works of Martin Doyle. [pseud.] by Martin Doyle (1836)
"The baguets are tall, their cups correctly shaped, with white bottoms, broken
into fine brown, all from the same breeder. By-blowers have cups with white ..."
4. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1890)
"... yet all the This bud-variation, in accordance with the views of MM. Vilmorin
baguets are said to have come from a single breeder or seedling. and Verlot ..."
5. The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose by James Holly Hanford (1919)
"... That bombshells, grape, an' powder 'n' ball Air good-will's strongest magnets,
Thet peace, to make it stick at all, Must be druv in with baguets. ..."
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