bloomful
English edit
Etymology edit
From bloom + -ful. Compare Dutch bloemenvol, German blumenvoll.
Adjective edit
bloomful (comparative more bloomful, superlative most bloomful)
- (poetic or literary) Rich in bloom.
- a. 1854, Alfred Johnstone Hollingsworth, “Childe Erconwold, a Spell of Love and War”, in George Sexton, editor, The Poetical Works of the Late Alfred Johnstone Hollingsworth with Memoirs of the Author, 2nd edition, volume I, London: C[harles] J[oseph] Skeet, […], published 1858, section XL (A Priest Enters the Gaol), page 274:
- As keen froſt nips the bloomful tree, / So this grim thought chills all in me; / Blighting each hope as it ſtrives to be!—
- 1877, Charles W[illiam] Hubner, “The Brook”, in Wild Flowers. Poems., New York, N.Y.: The Authors’ Publishing Company, pages 159–160:
- Where is the beauty of the summer brook, / The shimmering glory of the bloomful fields?
- 1878 May 25, H. H. Browne, “Apple-Blossoms”, in The Sunday School Times, volume XX, number 21, Philadelphia, Pa.: John D. Wattles, page 322, column 3:
- So, when the bloomful summer days are o’er, / When comes the sadder autumn of men’s lives, / May it be found that then a precious store, / The priceless harvest of good work survives.
- 1881, Mel-Inda Jennie Porter, Valkyria, or Chaplets of Mars, New York, N.Y.: W[inthrop] B. Smith & Co., […], page 20:
- We grow the Star-of-Bethlehem—sweet flower—that blooms for “Reconciliation,”—and the bloomful Star-wart, too, that’s “Welcome to a stranger;” […]
- 1884, [Edgar Fawcett], The Buntling Ball: A Græco-American Play, Being a Poetical Satire on New York Society, New York, N.Y., London: Funk & Wagnalls […], page 35:
- Thine eloquence is like the bloomful chintz / That florid, sanguine, gorgeous, hangs for sale / Above thy counter at the Meares bazaar.
- 1888, John Muir, editor, Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope; […], New York, N.Y., San Francisco, Calif.: J. Dewing Publishing Company, page 126:
- Many of the vineyardists prepare for market their own grapes, the wife and children, after due training, packing the bloomful clusters in layers with excellent skill.
- 1890 March, Edgar Fawcett, “The Tears of Tullia”, in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. A Popular Journal of General Literature, Science, and Politics., volume XLV, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 392:
- But even as thus he mused, the air with sound / Of numerous foot-falls did abound, / Like plash of delicate rain on grassy ground, / And through the wide-flung doors, with timorous tread, / With each a lovely and low-bent head / Half shadowing her bewilderments of dread, / Came twenty as bloomful maidens as the dome / Of lucid heaven o’erarching Rome / Had ever beamed on; […]
- 1895 February 24, The Eagle [pseudonym; Leroy E. Mosher], “The Times Eagle”, in The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., page 21, column 3:
- It was a great see-saw, that—the party from the warm and woolly West trying to keep at least one ear at a time thawed out sufficiently to save enough of it to hear the jingling bells, and then the flying snow, the nipping and eager air, the bloomful-faced maids and matrons one meets in other sleighs, with ears aflame with the carmine of cold, going by behind flying horses and amid the multitudinous music of the bells, that jingle with such maddening iteration in the play an Irving and a Booth have made famous.
- 1913, Gene Stratton-Porter, “Laddie, the Princess, and the Pie”, in Laddie: A True Blue Story, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 441:
- Then she leaned toward me all wavery, and shining eyed, and bloomful, and said: “Did you ever hurt Laddie’s feelings, and make him angry and sad?”
- 1918, Gene Stratton-Porter, “Somewhat of Polly”, in A Daughter of the Land, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 368:
- They met halfway, under the bloomful shade of a red haw.
References edit
- “bloomful, adj.”, in OED Online
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