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In some senses, crocusy is marked as rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
nice, yellow
VERB + CROCUSY
sort, spring
CROCUSY + NOUN
affair, mauve, silk
adj
Resembling or characteristic of crocuses.
You don’t think that perhaps a big chou and ends of pale yellow chiffon—the nice spring crocusy yellow—would improve me?
Now you have come to see / Out yonder where I go, / You ’ll find your way to follow me— / There ’s the world for you to outgrow, / There ’s Power to be overcome, / There ’s more of you to be, / More of man-total sum / Of soul ere you come to me / The way I go, wholly out there / In the crocusy air— / There ’s to reach and to be / More of you yet, more of me.
Featuring crocuses.
Spring should have begun, yesterday, in earnest but the weather hangs back this year and so far there has not been much “Spring by advance installments.” There hasn’t been a real, balmy, crocusy, johnnyjumpup, Spring day, yet, and this is the 22nd.o f^([sic]) March.
Having reported all this, consider the significance on such a wonderful, balmy, crocusy day. Lady Bird Johnson can look out from the second-floor White House porch and visualize big beds of tulips in bloom both on the wide lawn and in every planting area in the land.
You don’t think that perhaps a big chou and ends of pale yellow chiffon—the nice spring crocusy yellow—would improve me?
WiktionaryNow you have come to see / Out yonder where I go, / You ’ll find your way to follow me— / There ’s the world for you to outgrow, / There ’s Power to be overcome, / There ’s more of you to be, / More o
WiktionaryHe designed a dress for her, and had it made as a studio property of his own—a sort of crocusy affair, mauve silk, slashed with purple streaks—a dancer’s skirt, rather full—and she has such pretty leg
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In some senses, crocusy is marked as rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.