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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Covered or adorned with primroses.

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  • The Acidalian roses and myrtles, the purple lotos and the snowy thorn, the yellow pod-flowers and the waving palms, the vermeil apples and the primrosed banks, of CAMOENS 'somewhat zone-confounding vision, had indeed vanished, and in their stead seemed to wave snowy _serviettes_, to flow champagne-streams, to glitter goblets, and to glow orchid-laden _épergnes_.

    Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 Various 1876

  • Sadly we are falling into the hands of the global elite by goose-stepping right down the primrosed path.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

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