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📚 name • entry_id 24942

Lily

/ˈlɪli/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Azucena • Lilia
A female given name from English, popular around 1900 and currently returning to favor.
"Lily is such a romantic name. It sounds to me like soft music; it's the sort of name to make one dream of fanciful things." Lily smiled. "It's my grandmother's name. Coincidence,…
"Poor little thing! She is very wee and frail, isn't she? Only two months old. We came away from the north, as soon as I was able to travel. She is called Lily." I remembered Horac…
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📚 noun • entry_id 17589

lily

/ˈlɪli/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
azucena • lirio
Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.
The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.
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