"elder-blow" meaning in English

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          "text": "1838, Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 22nd edition, enlarged, p. 27,\nA poultice of elder-blow tea and biscuit is good as a preventive to mortification."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret, Boston: Jordan and Wiley, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 274",
          "text": "I wouldn’t tech it sooner a cow’d eat elder blows.",
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        {
          "ref": "1876, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Poetry and Imagination”, in Letters and Social Aims, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 33",
          "text": "What are his [the writer’s] garland and singing robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him,—all emblems and personal appeals to him.",
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        {
          "ref": "1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 2",
          "text": "[…] the long highway broidered thick\nWith elder-blow and rose;",
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        {
          "ref": "1918, Willa Cather, chapter 14, in My Antonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 265",
          "text": "[…] the elder was all in bloom now; and Anna wanted to make elder-blow wine.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Cathy Johnson, The Nocturnal Naturalist: Exploring the Outdoors at Night, Chester, CT: Globe Pequot Press, page 42",
          "text": "Elderflowers glow like incandescent seafoam in the darkness. They, too, are good to eat. We make a fine tea of them to serve with elder blow fritters on the deck at night.",
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        "The edible flower clusters (umbels) of the elder tree (Sambucus nigra)."
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        "(US) The edible flower clusters (umbels) of the elder tree (Sambucus nigra)."
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          "word": "elder bloom"
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          "text": "1838, Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 22nd edition, enlarged, p. 27,\nA poultice of elder-blow tea and biscuit is good as a preventive to mortification."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret, Boston: Jordan and Wiley, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 274",
          "text": "I wouldn’t tech it sooner a cow’d eat elder blows.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1876, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Poetry and Imagination”, in Letters and Social Aims, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 33",
          "text": "What are his [the writer’s] garland and singing robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him,—all emblems and personal appeals to him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 2",
          "text": "[…] the long highway broidered thick\nWith elder-blow and rose;",
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        },
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          "text": "[…] the elder was all in bloom now; and Anna wanted to make elder-blow wine.",
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        },
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