Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of the Liliaceæ, one species of which (A. lurida) from China is a common florists' plant. It is grown for its handsome crown of long, shining, recurving foliage, in the north in pots and as a window decoration, in the south in the open in moist ground. There is a striped-leafed form. The flowers are inconspicuous.
Wiktionary
- n. A taxonomic genus within the family Ruscaceae — the aspidistras.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an evergreen perennial (Aspidistra elatio) with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
Examples
“The bitterness that reviewers rightly detected in Aspidistra reflected Orwell's desperation as an impecunious and struggling writer, who was too poor to propose to a young woman he had recently fallen in love with.”
“From Burmese Days to Keep the Aspidistra Flying to Animal Farm to 1984 to his great essays, where is the voice of George Orwell?”
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“I recently read a fairly obscure George Orwell novel called "Keep the Aspidistra Flying.”
“Gordon Comstock, the protagonist of Keep the Aspidistra flying is virtually Winston Smith's Siamese twin brother, except that one inhabits a terrifying universe, the other inhabits a comic or tragi-comic at times, but basically farcial universe.”
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“Winston Smith: Is either one of you familiar with an early George Orwell novel called Keep the Aspidistra Flying?”
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“No one has recorded the miracle better than Orwell in Keep the Aspidistra Flying.”
“Extract: Whereas the intellectual Left think George Orwell in 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' once patronised or mythologised the white working class, for years now they have been considered an embarrassment, a low-achieving, boorish, poorly educated affront to the sensibilities of the 'progressive' elite that preached the virtues of multi-culturalism, promoted mass immigration and makes up much of the political establishment, including the modern Labour Party.”
“Eli keeps the Aspidistra flying tastes good if you are a bunny”
“His six-month stay in Hampstead, where he worked part-time in a bookshop while writing Keep the Aspidistra Flying, had already taken in several low-key romantic entanglements, but the seriousness of his intentions towards Eileen produced a whirlwind courtship.”
“The money they had expected for Keep the Aspidistra Flying in October would not now be paid until April, while The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell's account of his journey round the unemployment blackspots of the north of England, undertaken earlier in the year, was several chapters away from completion.”
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