chrysanth
English
Noun
chrysanth (plural chrysanths)
- (informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of chrysanthemum.
- 1920 August 27, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Wind Blows”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, OCLC 561951956, page 138:
- Marie Swainson runs into the garden next door to pick the “chrysanths” before they are ruined.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:
- The ewer was on the mantelpiece, crowded today with white lilies and white mop-headed chrysanths.
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