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make a clean breast
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corolla

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Together, all of the petals of a flower

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the shriveled paper corollas, fluttering like black butterflies at the back of the stove, at lest flew up the chimney.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Aarfy complained tolerantly, cupping his podgy hand behind the blanched corolla of his ear.

Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.289 (1961)
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