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  • noun Plural form of campion.

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Examples

  • In the deep shade of the arching hazels on the track, I have a brief premonition of bluebells and the pink blush of red campions.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • In the deep shade of the arching hazels on the track, I have a brief premonition of bluebells and the pink blush of red campions.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Pink campions and tousled goosegrass rose on either side, camouflaging it nicely.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Pink campions and tousled goosegrass rose on either side, camouflaging it nicely.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Shaking out her napkin, she surveyed the scene: the snowy cloth with hints of lace, a jug of red and white campions, the delicate, porcelain breakfast service…really, Captain Holland was the only incongruous element.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Shaking out her napkin, she surveyed the scene: the snowy cloth with hints of lace, a jug of red and white campions, the delicate, porcelain breakfast service…really, Captain Holland was the only incongruous element.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Shaking out her napkin, she surveyed the scene: the snowy cloth with hints of lace, a jug of red and white campions, the delicate, porcelain breakfast service…really, Captain Holland was the only incongruous element.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • It was rich with lupin, honeysuckle, campions, and ragged robin; bed straw, hops, and wild clematis twined and hung among its branches, and all along its ditch border the starry stitchwort lifted its childish faces, and chorused in lines and masses.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • He had brought columbines and campions, and new-mown hay, and oak-tufts and honeysuckle in small bud.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • She threaded two pink campions in the bush of red-gold hair above his penis.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

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