Crossword clues for cypresses
cypresses
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cypress \Cy"press\ (s?"pr?s), n.; pl. Cypresses (-?z). [OE. cipres, cipresse, OF. cipres, F. cypr?s, L. cupressus, cyparissus (cf. the usual Lat. form cupressus), fr. Gr. ????, perh. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. g?pher, Gen. vi. 14.] (Bot) A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
Note: Among the trees called cypress are the common Oriental cypress, Cupressus sempervirens, the evergreen American cypress, Cupressus thyoides (now called Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea), and the deciduous American cypress, Taxodium distichum. As having anciently been used at funerals, and to adorn tombs, the Oriental species is an emblem of mourning and sadness.
Cypress vine (Bot.), a climbing plant with red or white flowers ( Ipot[oe]a Quamoclit, formerly Quamoclit vulgaris).
Wiktionary
n. (plural of cypress English)
Usage examples of "cypresses".
Suddenly the houses were again shaken, the minarets reeled like cypresses, and the wall against which Captain Polyxigis was leaning split right down the middle.
On the evening of the murder Benson had brought his car in on the way to the Cypresses for dinner.
He knew that it would be no good taking it to the Cypresses at that hour, since Dr.
Then she had “grown serious” and begged him to drive back to the Cypresses and bring her husband home.
The Cypresses, as Beef already knew, was not on the telephone, since Stewart had inherited his father's prejudice.
He told her that her husband must have left the Cypresses and be on his way home now.
His story was very well put together, but don't forget he had to find some way of explaining why he was up at the Cypresses that evening after midnight, because the policeman saw him.
And why should she be suspected rather than anyone who had passed the Cypresses at any time on foot?
The Folkestone-Boulogne was at four-thirty and she couldn't have got that—not without leaving the Cypresses before she did.
There was nothing unusual about that since Benson dined at the Cypresses every two months or so.
Duncan on the character of her late husband, we left the Cypresses and drove down to the little newsagent's at the bottom of the road.
In any case we wanted to find out if he had actually picked up the swordstick in the grounds of the Cypresses, or if he had had it with him when he went in there.
The car had to be left outside the public-house, but it was no great distance to the Cypresses, so that in a few minutes we were standing on the lawn before the summer-house.
But what we do know about him is that Ed Wilson saw him coming out of the drive of the Cypresses early the following morning, carrying a stick.
Duncan had purchased her public-house, or whether the antique-dealer's wife had found other suspicious characters to follow, dismissed from my nostrils the stench of old Fryer's yard, and the musty odour of the Cypresses, gave no thought to the two ill-assorted pairs of lovers: Ed Wilson and his quiet pale wife, and Peter Ferrers with the doctor's talkative widow.