knosp

[ nosp ]

noun

1. a budlike ornament.

Word History and Origins

Origin of knosp¹

1800–10; < German Knospe bud; akin to knop

Example Sentences

Knosp, nosp, n. the unopened bud of a flower: an architectural ornament resembling such.

From Project Gutenberg

V. Another day, and ye From knosp and turret’s brow Shall, with your fleet of crowding wings, Air’s viewless billows plough, With no keen-fang’d regretting Our darken’d hill-sides quitting, —Away in fond companionship as cheerily as now!

From Project Gutenberg

Associated word: accolade. knightly, a. chivalrous, gallant. knob, n. excrescence, boss, lump, tubercle, knop, stud, hard swelling; finial, knosp. knock, v. rap; clash, bump; strike, beat.--n. blow, stroke; rap. knock about.

From Project Gutenberg

Thy thousands, trained to martial toil, Full red would stain their native soil, Ere from thy mural crown there fell The slightest knosp or pinnacle.

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