hollyberry

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A form of holly berry — A red berry (botanically a drupe) borne on hollies.

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Meanings

nounhollyberry (plural hollyberries)

plural hollyberries

  1. alternativeAlternative form of holly berry.

    The hall was artistically decorated in greens and hollyberries, and a large number of visitors from other Parlors were present.

    1911 February, Native Daughters of the Golden West, “Many Doings in Guadalupe”, in Grizzly Bear, volume VIII, number 4 (46 overall), Los Angeles, Calif.: Grizzly Bear Publishing Co., →OCLC, pages 18–19
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    The walls were covered with green garlands and boughs and sprays of hollyberries, and branches of wax lights were gleaming brightly amongst them.

    1892, Mary E[leanor] Wilkins, “The Christmas Monks”, in The Pot of Gold and Other Stories, Boston, Mass.: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., →OCLC, page 95

    One household, free of qualms about Twelfth Night superstitions, so relished the look of jolly hollyberries, and were so reluctant to abandon their Christmas efforts to the bonfire, that they left the evergreen garlands pinned to the beams supporting their studio roof all the year round, […]

    1982, Elizabeth Dickson, “The Versatile Living Room”, in Elizabeth Dickson, Margaret Colvin, The Laura Ashley Book of Home Decorating, London: Octopus Books, →ISBN, “Planning Your Home” section, page 35, columns 1–2
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