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The Color Purple vocabulary
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jonquil
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synonyms: Narcissus ???
tags: [botany]
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Definition:1. a fragrant species of daffodil2. a yellow shade
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It partook of the delicious fragrance of jonquil and of the stench of gutta percha and coal oil.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours.
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But Hope had put a small bunch of jonquils in a glass on the dresser and her hairbrush was there, sign of marriage and civilization, and she had put a small photograph of Noah, laughing, in a sweater, taken on a summer holiday, under the flowers.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.305 (1948)
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All round the house, all in back of it, nothing but blooming trees. Then more lilies and jonquils and roses camming over everything.
Alice Walker. The Color Purple, p.180 (1982)
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The walls of the caves in their depths are phosphorescent. They give off a jonquil-yellow light.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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I moved swiftly — so as to arrive, as soon as might be, at the table that was spread for me, with fruit and a flask of Chianti — across a Ponte Vecchio heaped with jonquils, narcissi and anemones.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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