Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of various slender, branching sponges, of unmerchantable quality, found in Florida; a glove-sponge.
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Examples
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Beside the superb branch of uneatable bitter oranges which decks my tent-pole, I have to-day hung up a long bough of finger-sponge, which floated to the river-bank.
Army Life in a Black Regiment Higginson, Thomas W 1869
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Beside the superb branch of uneatable bitter oranges which decks my tent-pole, I have to-day hung up a long bough of finger-sponge, which floated to the river-bank.
Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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