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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The common name of a cultivated species of Spiræa, S. hypericifolia, with long recurved branches and numerous small white double flowers in the axils of the leaves.
  2. n. The Francoa ramosa, a somewhat shrubby saxifragaceous plant of Chili, with long crowded racemes of white flowers. It is cultivated in England.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. Chilean evergreen shrub having delicate spikes of small white flowers
  2. n. shrub having copious small white flowers in spring

Examples

  • “And even the bridal-wreath tree (light, fresh, barely there).”

    mrissa: That stinks.

  • “There was bridal-wreath billowing above stone fences, snow-balls, pale globes among the green, beds of iris, purple-black beneath the moon.”

    The Tin Soldier

  • “Roses and bridal-wreath and mock-orange trees were in bloom.”

    Martie, the Unconquered

  • “Below the back steps lay a little city garden, so lovely in the strengthening March sunlight that she must set her bottles down on the step, and run down for a whiff of the fragrance of climbing roses, just beginning to bloom, of bridal-wreath and white lilac.”

    The Story of Julia Page

  • “Larks whirled up from the fields, and the bridal-wreath and syringa bushes were mounds of creamy bloom.”

    Sisters

  • “Samson, sprinkle another spadeful of manure on that bridal-wreath bush over thar by the porch.”

    The Miller of Old Church

  • “The gravel walks were bordered with great lilac-bushes, mock-orange, and bridal-wreath.”

    A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

  • “Then she went slowly up and down the box-bordered walks, the full skirt of her "old lady's gown" trailing stiffly over the white gravel, her delicate face rising against the blossomless shrubs of snowball and bridal-wreath, like a faintly tinted flower that had been blighted before it fully bloomed.”

    The Battle Ground

  • “When the bridal-wreath by the gate saw that, she set industriously to work upon her own wedding-gown.”

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man

  • “Overhead the silken folds of the flag hung motionless in the calm evening air; and all the place about him was sweet with the scent of bridal-wreath and early iris.”

    Ailsa Paige

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