lilypond

English

Etymology

From lily +‎ pond.

Noun

lilypond (plural lilyponds)

1. A pond in which water lilies grow.
   • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 98:

     He had walked towards the middle of an ornamental lilypond when innebriated up to the point where braced shirts meet knickerbockers, […]

   • 1941, Upton Sinclar, Between Two Worlds I, Simon Publications, published 2001, →ISBN, page 3:

     Only van Gogh's sunrise and Monet's lilypond had their glories undiminished […]

   • 2003, Mike Parker, Paul Whitfield, Wales, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 126:

     Seldom busy, the gardens offer everything from formal lilyponds and billiard table-smooth lawns to joyous bursts of floral colour and the russets, golds and greens of an arboretum.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lilypond.

Anagrams

• pond lily, pondlily