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- noun Plural form of
paeony .
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Examples
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About 400 seedling paeonies flowered again this year.
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They were strolling along a broad flowery border, which was at the moment a blaze of paeonies of all shades, interspersed with tall pyramidal growths of honeysuckle.
Sir George Tressady — Volume I Humphry Ward 1885
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Marcella was loitering here and there, burying her face in the fragrance of the honeysuckle, or drawing her companion's attention in delight to the glowing clumps of paeonies Hallin hovered round them, now putting his hand confidingly into Tressady's, now tugging at his mother's dress, and now gravely wooing the friendship of a fine St. Bernard that made one of the party.
Sir George Tressady — Volume I Humphry Ward 1885
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Close to the rear wall overhanging the lake, ran a treillage of grape vines, and on the small grass sown plat of garden, belated paeonies tossed up their brilliant balls, as play-things for the wind that swept over the blue waves, breaking into a fringe of foam beyond the stone enclosure.
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Clusters of electric lamps had changed seven pairs of huge marble candelabra into gigantic _torcheres_, akin to constellations; and all along the cornice up above, other lamps set in bright-hued floral glasses formed a marvellous garland of flaming flowers: tulips, paeonies, and roses.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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Clusters of electric lamps had changed seven pairs of huge marble candelabra into gigantic _torcheres_, akin to constellations; and all along the cornice up above, other lamps set in bright-hued floral glasses formed a marvellous garland of flaming flowers: tulips, paeonies, and roses.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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