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Definition of Flowers-of-an-hour
1. Noun. Annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America.
Generic synonyms: Hibiscus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowers-of-an-hour
Literary usage of Flowers-of-an-hour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"... in hi* Herbal, to call them Flowers of an Hour ; yet they are every Day fuc-
ceeded by new Flowers, ..."
2. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"Sometimes was seen a sun-dial — once the every-day friend and suggestive monitor
of all who wandered among the flowers of an hour; now known, alas ! only to ..."
3. Guido Gezelle, the Mystic Poet of Flanders by Gustave Leopold Van Roosbroeck (1919)
"His is not Maeterlinck's painfully minute observation of varying moods, which,
like rare flowers of an hour, fill the dusky rooms of his consciousness with ..."
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