primrosey

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1. alternativeAlternative spelling of primrosy.

   And nothing like primrosey spring

   a. 1865, John Clare, edited by Eric Robinson and Geoffrey Summerfield, The Later Poems of John Clare, Manchester University Press, published 1964, page 205

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   […] once the wind stops I hope to do a bit of primrosey ground that will be richer.

   1887, John Ruskin, Hortus Inclusus. Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston, New York, N.Y.: Merrill and Baker, […], page 131

   So in they went and found a nice table looking out on a primrosey garden.

   1966, Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat, Dragon Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 121

   Maybe there’s a special, filial fondness for fireweed—it was the first plant to be found punching its resilient, primrosey stems up through the scorched waste of tephra and ash.

   2012, Elizabeth Dodd, Horizon’s Lens: My Time on the Turning World, Lincoln, Neb.; London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 206

   Unforeseen byway gates / Dusty paved primrosey paths / Mazed traversant roads

   2013, Paul Shapshak, “Gates”, in Selected Poetry, book II (Variations on Themes), AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 81

   “And the field of flowers? What catches your eye?” “They’re sort of swirly to me,” said Jo. “Not primrosey, like you saw.”

   2022, Frances Tosdevin, Clémence Monnet, An Artist’s Eyes, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, →ISBN