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  • noun Plural form of cowslip.

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Examples

  • It was all very detached from placing dew drops in cowslips, but it worked eventually.

    Ashland joshenglish 2008

  • You, she says, think it a great privilege to be born in the eighteenth century, because one called cowslips pagles and rode in a curricle instead of driving in

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • All that hiding in cowslips, Shakespeare took it up because it was fashionable but it didn't invite his imagination at all.

    Boing Boing: December 16, 2001 - December 22, 2001 Archives 2001

  • For the price of a Kate Spade purse, which I think we've established is $3.00 at Goodwill, you can buy one hundred seeds of primula veris, otherwise knows as cowslips, from Select Seeds.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Theodora Goss 2008

  • For the price of a Kate Spade purse, which I think we've established is $3.00 at Goodwill, you can buy one hundred seeds of primula veris, otherwise knows as cowslips, from Select Seeds.

    For the Price of a Kate Spade Purse Theodora Goss 2008

  • - An orchard with a collection of ornamental crab apples under-planted with wildflowers and bulbs such as cowslips, narcissus and snakes head fritillaries.

    getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed 2010

  • - An orchard with a collection of ornamental crab apples under-planted with wildflowers and bulbs such as cowslips, narcissus and snakes head fritillaries.

    getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed 2010

  • An enchanting marmot by Jacopo Ligozzi competes with Albrecht D ü rer's cowslips and the charming red squirrel of a D ü rer contemporary, Hans Hofmann.

    The Proto-Surrealist Karen Wilkin 2010

  • Christopher OsborneWest Bridgford, Nottinghamshire• "A sudden ignition of cowslips … Swashbuckling clouds and a rain of mad birds…" Country diary, 11 May.

    Letters: Majestic whine 2011

  • Aspnum gave birth to Charrsid worms laughed themselves into consorts garage doors snagged their own eyelids shoe boxes climbed all the poles hellgrammites danced in the cupboard tug boats shrugged their conceits cowslips died of anemia

    Omaha Matt Dennison 2012

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