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  • noun Common misspelling of fuchsias, the Plural form of fuchsia.

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Examples

  • And as he moved into color, gone were the loud fuschias of the past, replaced instead with more muted in color, at least mauve and moss green dresses.

    PHOTOS: Christian Siriano Grows Up, Goes Dark Huffington Post 2011

  • I inherited an obsessive love for fuschias from my grandmother, and I actually have an awful dress made by my mother must cut that up and reuse all that yardage in this print but with a grey background instead of brown in satin.

    Shirtdress #3 - A Dress A Day 2008

  • Anyway, when I returned from Vegas, I found on my desk the most beautiful bouquet of flowers, vibrant oranges, purples, reds, and fuschias.

    Procrastinatory Update barbylon 2006

  • Anyway, when I returned from Vegas, I found on my desk the most beautiful bouquet of flowers, vibrant oranges, purples, reds, and fuschias.

    Procrastinatory Update barbylon 2006

  • I generally plant some fuschias and some red impatients in there, and he jealously guards "his" flowers all summer long.

    Firedoglake » Sunday Talking Heads 2006

  • The delicate tamarind and the feathery algaroba intermingled their fragile grace with the dark, shiny foliage of the South Sea exotics, and the deep red, solitary flowers of the hibiscus rioted among dear familiar fuschias and geraniums, which here attain the height and size of large rhododendrons.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The verandah at the front, was tastefully ornamented with flowers and evergreens, surmounted by a number of elegant fuschias, in the centre of which stood out a prettily worked 'Prince of Wales' Feathers. '

    The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway

  • These are well stocked with dahlias, roses, hortensias, begonias, cowslips, sweet williams, wall-flower, and other old-fashioned flowers, and the bloom-covered fuschias carried one's thoughts back to pleasant days spent in Devonshire dales.

    Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java Thomas H. Reid

  • Miss Pilgrim among the geraniums and fuschias of the conservatory.

    Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

  • The fuschias form a thick glade, and the trunks of several of them almost defy the ordinary axe or saw.

    The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

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