goldcup
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editgoldcup (plural goldcups)
- (dated) The buttercup.
- 1896, Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad, Chapter V:
- Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
Are lying in field and lane,
With dandelions to tell the hours
That never are told again.
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editReferences
edit- “goldcup”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.