appleblossom

English

Noun

appleblossom (countable and uncountable, plural appleblossoms)

1. Alternative form of apple blossom.
   • 1859 May 7, “A Sum in Fair Division”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume 1, number 2, London, page 42:

     No new nest was given to the starvelings, and they went to Fulham, which is a nice place, where almond and appleblossom comes out a week earlier than on our side of London, but where the parish is charged heavily with poor.

   • 1953, Rose Violet Feilbach, Stories and Games for Easy Lipreading Practice, page 34:

     This is the story of how Johnny Appleseed brought appleblossoms to the West.

   • 1986, Catherine Gavin, A Light Woman, London: Diamond Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 251:

     In one of the empty hovels of the maquis Babette took refuge, barring the door but leaving the window ajar to let the sweet scent of appleblossom drive out the smell of blood which seemed to be everywhere, in her clothes and hair and on her hands.

   • 2015 May, Melissa de la Cruz, The Isle of the Lost (Descendants; 1), New York, N. Y.: Disney Book Group, →ISBN, page 135:

     “You’re looking pale again! Let me blush!” She removed a big round brush and began to work on Evie’s cheeks. “Pink as an appleblossom. There. Much better.”