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may blossom

noun

  1. the blossom of the may tree or hawthorn


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There are some quaint superstitions connected with May-day and May-blossom.

The magnificent promise of spring was broken before the May-blossom was fully out.

He lay beside the quiet water, and over him, it is said, like a snowy pall drooped the clustering May-blossom.

This they called going a-Maying, and the flower of the hawthorn came to be called May-blossom.

There were no trees of any size; nothing bigger in fact than hawthorns, which were full of may-blossom.

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