appleblossom

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A form of apple blossom — The flower of an apple tree that will eventually turn into an apple.

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Meanings

nounappleblossom (countable and uncountable, plural appleblossoms)

plural appleblossoms

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of apple blossom.

    This is the story of how Johnny Appleseed brought appleblossoms to the West.

    1953, Rose Violet Feilbach, Stories and Games for Easy Lipreading Practice, page 34
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    No new nest was given to the starvelings, and they went to Fulham, which is a nice place, where almond and appleblossom comes out a week earlier than on our side of London, but where the parish is charged heavily with poor.

    1859 May 7, “A Sum in Fair Division”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume 1, number 2, London, page 42

    In one of the empty hovels of the maquis Babette took refuge, barring the door but leaving the window ajar to let the sweet scent of appleblossom drive out the smell of blood which seemed to be everywhere, in her clothes and hair and on her hands.

    1986, Catherine Gavin, A Light Woman, London: Diamond Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 251

    “You’re looking pale again! Let me blush!” She removed a big round brush and began to work on Evie’s cheeks. “Pink as an appleblossom. There. Much better.”

    2015 May, Melissa de la Cruz, The Isle of the Lost (Descendants; 1), New York, N. Y.: Disney Book Group, →ISBN, page 135
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