Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bulb-bearing lily, Lilium bulbiferum. See
lily .
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It will furnish them with a platform upon which they will have to talk in terms of the plough, the loom, and the ledger, and not in terms of the wolf-dog and the orange-lily, and will render fruitful for the service of the country innumerable talents, now unknown or estranged by political superstitions.
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He was dressed in his favorite suit of broad plaid, and had a gigantic orange-lily stuck jauntily in his buttonhole.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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