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knosp

[ nosp ]

noun

  1. a budlike ornament.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of knosp1

1800–10; < German Knospe bud; akin to knop
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Knosp, nosp, n. the unopened bud of a flower: an architectural ornament resembling such.

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V. Another day, and ye From knosp and turret’s brow Shall, with your fleet of crowding wings, Air’s viewless billows plough, With no keen-fang’d regretting Our darken’d hill-sides quitting, —Away in fond companionship as cheerily as now!

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Associated word: accolade. knightly, a. chivalrous, gallant. knob, n. excrescence, boss, lump, tubercle, knop, stud, hard swelling; finial, knosp. knock, v. rap; clash, bump; strike, beat.--n. blow, stroke; rap. knock about.

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Thy thousands, trained to martial toil, Full red would stain their native soil, Ere from thy mural crown there fell The slightest knosp or pinnacle.

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