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jasmine
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The color jasmine is a pale tint of yellow , displayed at right. It is a representation of the average color of the more yellowish lower part of the pale yellowish white colored jasmine flower. The first recorded use of jasmine as a color name in English ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several plants, of the genus ''Jasminum'', mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers. 2 The perfume obtained from these plants. 3 Any of several unrelated plants having a similar perfume. 4 A yellow colour.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from French jasmin (Middle French jessemin ), from Arabic yas(a)min , from Persian yasmin (compare Greek iasme , iasmelaion , name of a Persian perfume). The plant first was grown in England 16c.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jasmine \Jas"mine\, n. [F. jasmin, Sp. jazmin, Ar. y[=a]sm[=i]n, Pers. y[=a]sm[=i]n; cf. It. gesmino, gelsomino. Cf. Jessamine .] (Bot.) A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum , bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The Jasminum officinale , common ...
Usage examples of jasmine.
They also favour certain plants for living quarters, among them agapanthus, lilies, irises, ice plants, ivy, nasturtiums, jasmine and strawberries.
Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.
Supposedly in her bridal tent, lounging in a silken gown among silken cushions with kohl on her eyelids, henna on her fingertips, attar of rose, jasmine, and orange blossom perfuming the air, Zohra instead was standing on the very top of the Tel, dressed in an old caftan and trousers that she had stolen from her father.
In this chamber some half dozen persons were seated in the Eastern fashion, and smoking either the choice tobaccoes of Syria through the cherry-wood or jasmine tube of a Turkish or Egyptian chibouque, or inhaling through rose-water the more artificial flavour of the nargileh, which is the hookah of the Levant.
Chaos was loudly surprised to see that the rabbit was still tagging along, and Fiddlesticks demanded explanations and fish in the same breath, while Jasmine pretended to find the whole affair boring beyond expression.
I took my niece for a sail in the bay, and after we had enjoyed one of those delicious evenings which I think can be found nowhere else-- sailing on a mirror silvered by the moon, over which float the odours of the jasmine, the orange-blossom, the pomegranates, the aloes, and all the scented flowers which grow along the coasts--we returned to our lodging, and I asked Annette what had become of Marcoline.
Her hair is clean and has the cinnamon odour now common to her, but it is tangled and unkempt and as different as hair may possibly be from the jasmine scented coif that I erected every morning until recently.
Jasmine, forsythia, Hypericum and mallow straggle over the bases of the wooden beams which support the end wall of the row of shops.
American millionairess playfully feeding you jasmined lychees from a Queen Anne silver spoon.
This place had filled her head with voodoo and jasmine in the dark and with the essence of an octaroon girl who was transformed, by the act of her mother, into the undead and who was torn, by her love for a human, between two irreconcilable worlds.
The night-jars, even the bats, had stilled their wings and slept in the limbs of the neem or the pipal, and the air that had borne the soft perfume of blossoms, and the pungent breath of jasmine, had chilled and grown heavy from the pressure of advancing night.
Her name was Jasmine Devereaux, and, according to this, the portrait was commissioned by Captain John Stockard himself.
Also, there is no longer any pretence of attending school these daysand nobody is mentioning my truancy, so I guess Jasmine told the family to be hush.
Murdoch, Jasmine, and Peregrine crabbed to a mast and unlashed eight-foot boarding pikes.
He drank in the fragrance of her hair, the wild, sweet tang of vetiver and jasmine, while his lips felt the smooth silken texture of her skin.