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Mary-bud en · NOUN
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(obsolete) A marigold or its blossom.
And winking Mary-buds begin / To ope their golden eyes: / With every thing that pretty is, / My lady sweet, arise.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], lines 23-26:The garden lay below me, and the dewy meadows beyond. In the one, bees were busy ruffling the ruddy gillyflowers and April stocks; in the other, the hedge twigs were all frosted with Mary buds, as if Spring had brushed them with the fleece of her wings in passing.
1899, Bernard Capes, At a Winter's Fire:
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