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1887 — Theo Gift, Lil Lorimer , D. Appleton and Company (1887), page 60 :
Miss Carmelita, the youngest of the three; who even in her blossomiest days — God bless her! — could never have been lovely; [ …] 1895 — Louis M. Elshemus, "Dirge to Dying May", in Songs of Spring and Blossoms of Unrequited Love , The Peter Paul Book Company (1895), page 15 :
On the last day of the blossomiest month of the years
We mourn; — and shed some silent tears! 2003 — Imogen Stubbs, "Mother of all roles ", The Telegraph , 18 March 2003:
OK. Let's examine how I feel as a mother: sometimes like a grandfather clock, sometimes like an alarm clock, sometimes a cornucopian goddess, sometimes a curmudgeonly landlord, sometimes like the blossomiest blossom, [ …] 2005 — Clare Sambrook, Hide & Seek , Canongate (2006), →ISBN , page 281 :
The trees around the little kids' playground dropped the blossomiest blossom I had ever seen.
