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marjorum (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of marjoram.
    • 1847, Modern Standard Drama, page 31:
      ‘The striped carnation, and the guarded rose,
      ‘The vulgar wall-flower, and smart gilly-flower,
      ‘The polyanthus mean—the dapper daisy,
      ‘Sweet William, and sweet marjorum—and all
      ‘The tribe of single and of double pinks!
    • 1850, Harper's Magazine, volume 1, page 449:
      The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.
    • 1853, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 42, page 45:
      Amaracus, a page of Cynarus, King of Cyprus, was so afflicted at having accidentally broken a vase which he was entrusted, and thus spilling a very precious ointment which it contained, that he died of grief, and the pitying gods changed him into the fragrant marjorum.
    • 1858, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 44, page 69:
      “The primrose, the spring’s own spouse;
      Bright day’s eyes, and the lips of cows;
      The garden star, the queen of May,
      The rose to crown the holiday—
      Rain roses still:
      Bring corn, flax, tulips, and Adonis’ flower,
      Flower-gentle, and the fair-haired hyacinth,
      Bring gladdest myrtle,
      With spikenard weaved, and marjorum between;
      And starred with yellow-golds and meadows’ green—
      The breath thereof Panchaia may envy,
      The colors China, and the light the sky.