coquelicot

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I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides, coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter.

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  • I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides, coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter. —  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
  • Your face is the colour of a coquelicot. —  Villette
  • She retired at once to the ladies 'cabin to indue her poke-bonnet with coquelicot trimmings. —  Poison Island
  • Que le coquelicot tombe languissament —  Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
  • Mr. Gibson dreadful French fancy-names: "Cascamèche -- moutardier du pape, tromblon-bolivard, vieux coquelicot"; to each of which the delighted Mr.G. answered: —  The Martian
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  1. Also written coquelico; F. coquelicot, formerly coquelicoq, wild poppy: so called from its resemblance in color to a cock's crest, the word being a variant of coquelicoq, coquelicon, coquerico, an imitation of the cry of a cock, cockadoodle-doo: see cock.
 

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