What is "aspidistras"

Usage examples of "aspidistras".

There were aspidistras like small trees and portraits hung on brass rails along the corridors which the lift raised us to.

Mister Snaith's communions with the spirits had the timelessness of any good theatrical performance – and that power seemed to follow me even as I picked my way around the aspidistras towards the stairs.

There were aspidistras, fussy lace curtains, shelves full of antique Meissen and a cocktail cabinet like a small wooden version of the Kremlin.

By mutual agreement they leave their aspidistras and their “Maiden’s Prayer” behind them.

Having given Maud a drink, she led her through the vast tapestried drawing-room out to the new conservatory, which stretched the entire back of the house at ground floor level and was crammed with statues of goddesses, iron seats painted white, lilies, palms, aspidistras and plants still wrapped, which people had brought as conservatory-warming presents.