marjorum
English
Noun
marjorum (uncountable)
- 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.