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- noun Plural form of
daffadowndilly .
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Examples
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They were all clad in fine long white albs, with two girts; their hair interwoven with narrow tape and purple ribbon, stuck with roses, gillyflowers, marjoram, daffadowndillies, thyme, and other sweet flowers.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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They were all clad in fine long white albs, with two girts; their hair interwoven with narrow tape and purple ribbon, stuck with roses, gillyflowers, marjoram, daffadowndillies, thyme, and other sweet flowers.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Dew lay heavy on the grass, as the dainty heels of my captresses testified, yet they trod lightly upon daisies wide-open to the blue sky, while daffadowndillies stooped in a silence broken only by their laughter.
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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I was divided between amusement at the notion of Spenser's daffadowndillies being _modern_, and indignation at hearing exactly the same adjective applied to them that the woman who sells me my hats bestows on the most appalling examples of her stock.
The Solitary Summer Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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They were all clad in fine long white albs, with two girts; their hair interwoven with narrow tape and purple ribbon, stuck with roses, gillyflowers, marjoram, daffadowndillies, thyme, and other sweet flowers.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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a bunch of the poor pinched flowers, and asked the man how he came to call them 'daffadowndillies.'
Prose Fancies (Second Series) Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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