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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.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Another kind of fomentation is composed of dried poppyheads, 4 oz.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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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.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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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.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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