Citations:dayshade

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English citations of dayshade

a kind of hat or umbrella

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  • 188, Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild, The Dictionary of Needlework: An Encyclopaedia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needleworks, page 506:
    Amongst the ancient Greeks, the Dayshade, or Skiadeion was employed at a certain Festival (the Panathenia) by the Athenian maidens, held over them by the daughters of the aliens. In later times, they have been in use all over Europe, and  ...

a kind of flower / plant

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  • 1975, Emmett Williams, Selected Shorter Poems, 1950-1970
    bella donna my fair lady of the night looks like hell in the light of day, burning, burning until she sets the cycle right again, turning, turning
    deadly nightshade into lively dayshade. universal truths shouldn't be all that hard to ...
  • 1981, Lois G. Gordon, Donald Barthelme, Boston : Twayne Publishers
    She studies the infinite variety of possibilities in her "floor-to-ceiling Early American spice racks with their neatly labeled jars of various sorts of bane including dayshade, scumlock, hyoscine, azote, hurtwort, and milkleg" (158). But Snow ...