Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In perfect bloom; like a blossom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a perfect blossom.
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Examples
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My mother was speechless, but her face smiled like a full-bloomed flower.
Mao's Last Dancer Li, Cunxin, 1961- 2003
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About the whole man there was an air somehow of full-bloomed foppishness gone to tassel -- as though having been a dandy once, he was now merely neat and precise in his way of dress.
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Intercession is the full-bloomed plant whose roots and strength lie back and down in the other two forms.
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_ Sir Walter Scott says that Macpherson's rare powers were an honour to his country; and in his Legend of Montrose and Highland Widow, his own style is deeply dyed by the Ossianic element, and sounds here like the proud soft voice of the full-bloomed mountain heather in the breeze, and there like that of the evergreen pine raving in the tempest.
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During our stay, sweeping, bright orange fields of calendula were being harvested-the full-bloomed flowers plucked one-by-one from the stem for use in the brand's baby care line and toothpaste.
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