Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
poppyhead .
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Examples
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Another kind of fomentation is composed of dried poppyheads, 4 oz.
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Another kind of fomentation is composed of dried poppyheads, 4 oz.
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The palm, in the shorthand of their art, gradually becomes a symmetrical branched ornament with two pendent bosses; this is again confused with the Greek iris, (Homer's blue iris, and Pindar's water-flag,) -- and the Florentines, in adopting Byzantine ornament, read it into their own Fleur-de-lys; but insert two poppyheads on each side of the entire foil, in their finest heraldry.
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{14c} Mr. Lewin himself presented the handsome pulpit of Caen stone, the carved poppyheads of the seats, and figures of angels in the roof.
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