"crocusy" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1902, Eleanor Hoyt, “Gowns and a Gobolink”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VII, page 378, column 2",
          "text": "You don’t think that perhaps a big chou and ends of pale yellow chiffon—the nice spring crocusy yellow—would improve me?",
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          "ref": "1911, Frederick Fanning Ayer, “The Man Militant”, in Bell and Wing, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, stanza IX, pages 286–287",
          "text": "Now you have come to see / Out yonder where I go, / You ’ll find your way to follow me— / There ’s the world for you to outgrow, / There ’s Power to be overcome, / There ’s more of you to be, / More of man-total sum / Of soul ere you come to me / The way I go, wholly out there / In the crocusy air— / There ’s to reach and to be / More of you yet, more of me.",
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          "ref": "1917, Basil Creighton, The History of an Attraction, London: Chatto & Windus, page 171",
          "text": "He designed a dress for her, and had it made as a studio property of his own—a sort of crocusy affair, mauve silk, slashed with purple streaks—a dancer’s skirt, rather full—and she has such pretty legs.",
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          "ref": "1959 April, “Spruce up for spring: Give your room a bright new look for the season”, in Enid A. Haupt, editor, Seventeen, Philadelphia, Pa.: Triangle Publications, Inc., page 96",
          "text": "When you swap your winter woolies for the crocusy cottons of spring, treat your room to the same sort of seasonal freshening-up.",
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          "ref": "2010, Venantius Fortunatus, translated by Joseph Pucci, “To Radegund (d. 587) and/or to Agnes (d. no later than 589)”, in Poems to Friends, Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., page 82",
          "text": "You have dressed festive altars in colored wreaths, painted them fresh with flowery threads. A golden, crocusy line goes forth, and here a purple row of violets, flushed scarlet meets milky white.",
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          "ref": "2021, Heather Osborne, Songbroken, Stanwood, Wash.: Forest Path Books",
          "text": "She wore what was probably her best guesting robe, in crocusy blues and purples, and a leather belt chased with women’s chevrons.",
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          "ref": "1909 March 22, The Piqua Daily Call, volume XXVI, number 135, Piqua, Oh.: The Call Publishing Co., page [2], column 2",
          "text": "Spring should have begun, yesterday, in earnest but the weather hangs back this year and so far there has not been much “Spring by advance installments.” There hasn’t been a real, balmy, crocusy, johnnyjumpup, Spring day, yet, and this is the 22nd.o f March.",
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          "ref": "1967 January 25, Ted Lewis, “Capitol Stuff”, in Daily News, volume 48, number 183, New York, N.Y., page 4, column 4",
          "text": "Having reported all this, consider the significance on such a wonderful, balmy, crocusy day. Lady Bird Johnson can look out from the second-floor White House porch and visualize big beds of tulips in bloom both on the wide lawn and in every planting area in the land.",
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          "ref": "1971, Frank Jefkins, “Part Four: Twenty-Four Case Studies”, in Advertising Today, London: Intertext Books, page 325",
          "text": "Each year Harrods has participated in the Festival of Stores and to advertise its own contribution of a Festival of Flowers another whole page in the Evening Standard proclaimed: Everything’s looking rosy, daffodilly, crocusy, forget-me-notty, snowdroppy, marigoldy, carnationy, narcissusy, hollyhocky, buttercuppy, irisy, geraniumy, chrysanthemumy, foxglovey, honeysuckly, hyacinthy, lupiny, rhododendrony, and astery at Harrods for the next eleven days.",
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          "ref": "1996, James Miller, “Out Family Values”, in Marion Lynn, editor, Voices: Essays on Canadian Families, Toronto, Ont.: Nelson Canada, part I (Diverse Family Forms), page 143",
          "text": "I had swallowed the laudanum and was drifting into sweet untroubled dreams of rocking Swing-O-Matics, Home-and-School Association meetings, Easter egg hunts in crocusy backyards, yearly pilgrimages to Storybook Gardens, and cute guys in spandex.",
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          "ref": "2021, Jennifer Walker, Elizabeth of the German Garden: A Literary Journey; A Biography of Elizabeth von Arnim, [Kibworth Beauchamp], Leics.: Matador",
          "text": "On one of these walks, towards the end of the month, they sat peacefully together under a pear tree in a ‘crocusy field, perfect stillness, grey, hazy, mysterious’.",
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          "ref": "1911, Frederick Fanning Ayer, “The Man Militant”, in Bell and Wing, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, stanza IX, pages 286–287",
          "text": "Now you have come to see / Out yonder where I go, / You ’ll find your way to follow me— / There ’s the world for you to outgrow, / There ’s Power to be overcome, / There ’s more of you to be, / More of man-total sum / Of soul ere you come to me / The way I go, wholly out there / In the crocusy air— / There ’s to reach and to be / More of you yet, more of me.",
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          "ref": "1959 April, “Spruce up for spring: Give your room a bright new look for the season”, in Enid A. Haupt, editor, Seventeen, Philadelphia, Pa.: Triangle Publications, Inc., page 96",
          "text": "When you swap your winter woolies for the crocusy cottons of spring, treat your room to the same sort of seasonal freshening-up.",
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          "ref": "2010, Venantius Fortunatus, translated by Joseph Pucci, “To Radegund (d. 587) and/or to Agnes (d. no later than 589)”, in Poems to Friends, Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., page 82",
          "text": "You have dressed festive altars in colored wreaths, painted them fresh with flowery threads. A golden, crocusy line goes forth, and here a purple row of violets, flushed scarlet meets milky white.",
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          "text": "She wore what was probably her best guesting robe, in crocusy blues and purples, and a leather belt chased with women’s chevrons.",
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          "text": "Spring should have begun, yesterday, in earnest but the weather hangs back this year and so far there has not been much “Spring by advance installments.” There hasn’t been a real, balmy, crocusy, johnnyjumpup, Spring day, yet, and this is the 22nd.o f March.",
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          "ref": "1967 January 25, Ted Lewis, “Capitol Stuff”, in Daily News, volume 48, number 183, New York, N.Y., page 4, column 4",
          "text": "Having reported all this, consider the significance on such a wonderful, balmy, crocusy day. Lady Bird Johnson can look out from the second-floor White House porch and visualize big beds of tulips in bloom both on the wide lawn and in every planting area in the land.",
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          "ref": "1971, Frank Jefkins, “Part Four: Twenty-Four Case Studies”, in Advertising Today, London: Intertext Books, page 325",
          "text": "Each year Harrods has participated in the Festival of Stores and to advertise its own contribution of a Festival of Flowers another whole page in the Evening Standard proclaimed: Everything’s looking rosy, daffodilly, crocusy, forget-me-notty, snowdroppy, marigoldy, carnationy, narcissusy, hollyhocky, buttercuppy, irisy, geraniumy, chrysanthemumy, foxglovey, honeysuckly, hyacinthy, lupiny, rhododendrony, and astery at Harrods for the next eleven days.",
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