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Quotation dates: 1499-1599
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Lillie-flour(e, n. [ME. lilye- (1340), lylye-flour.] The flower of the (white) lily, lily-flower. — a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 373.
He luikit on hir vglye lipper face, The quhilk befor was quhite as lillie flour 1535 Stewart 3680.
The lustie lyre, quhit as the lillie flour 15.. Clariodus iv. 1566.
Meliades … als fresch as is the lillie floure
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