Word of the Day: LIRICONFANCY


ETYMOLOGY
alteration of Latin lilium convallium (lily of the valleys), influenced by fancy


EXAMPLE
“…Of Liricumancie.
Liricumfancie, or as other iudge May Lilie, for resemblace alike: It hath his flowre verie white. In Greeke it is called Ephemeron, for his short continuance and daylie dying
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From: A Greene Forest
By John Maplet, 1567

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