in bloom

prepositional phrase

Blooming, blossoming, having flowers opening.

Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. Blooming, blossoming, having flowers opening.

    'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

    1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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