daffodiled

comparative more daffodiled · superlative most daffodiled

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of daffodilled.

   Apple trees out in the gardens bubbled with silver and rose; the night winds were channels for fragrance and the day winds were streams of spring warmth; and all down the long street old elms were stamping green shadows on green and daffodiled lawns.

   1927, Doris Peel, chapter 13, in Children of the Wind: A Novel, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, section 2, page 203

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   But it was in the vast dull world of terraces, gardens, streets, roads, places, and squares of New Kensington that the eye found strongest evidence of the rude awakening that had burst upon the long dream of security. Those legions of poor blue-china, peacock-feathered people—those miles of dadoed and daffodiled interiors—how infinitely forlorn and desolate they were now! I thought of the days when I had seen them in their glory; when a new wall-paper had been of greater consequence than a brigade of infantry, and a bit of blue crockery was worth more than a marshal’s baton.

   1889 February, W[illiam] F[rancis] Butler, “The Invasion of England. Chapter III.”, in Merry England, volume XII, London, →OCLC, page 262

   Despite every effort to keep them [elephants] on the paths, if they walk two abreast there is bound to be a casualty or two among the verges and beds. If they choose to take a slide down a daffodiled bank, prune a tree, or shred a hedge, there is not much you can do about it except apologize to the gardeners afterwards.

   1976, Peter Spence, “One Thing on Top of Another”, in Some of Our Best Friends Are Animals: The Story of a Wild Life Park, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published January 1978, →ISBN, page 134