slipper-orchid
English
Noun
- a type of orchid; a lady's slipper
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 22
- In the taper-lit, perhaps pre-sixteeth-century room - a piece of Laughing and Triumphing needlework in the style of Rubens completely hid the walls - the capacious oval of the dinner-table, crowned by a monteith bowl filled with slipper-orchids, showed agreeably enough.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 22
Translations
lady's slipper — see lady's slipper
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