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別の表記

• cherry-tree (archaic)

名詞

cherry-tree (plural cherry-trees)

1. Archaic form of cherry tree.
   • 1855 August 25, “A Day in a French Country-House”, in William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, volume IV, number 86, London: W. and R. Chambers, […] and […] Edinburgh, published 1856, page 123, column 1:

     I look up, and discern him perched in a cherry-tree, chanting loud in the innocent lightness of his spirits, and greeting me with a débonnaire ‘Bonjour, mademoiselle.’

   • 1893, Norman Gale, “An Orchard Dance”, in Orchard Songs, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews & John Lane; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 27:

     The village wakens to the bliss, / The crones and gaffers crawl to see / The country game of step and kiss / Beneath the laden cherry-tree.

   • 1895, Frances E. Crompton, Messire and other stories - Page 79:

     Little Gluck nodded seriously, and, sitting down cross-legged under the big cherry-tree, fell to contemplation of the world in general; and Uncle Peter's eyes twinkled comically through the wreaths of smoke. "Well, sonling, what troubles thee?

   • 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “East Wind”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 1:

     And sure enough, if you follow his directions exactly, you will be there—right in the middle of Cherry-Tree Lane, where the houses run down one side and the Park runs down the other and the cherry-trees go dancing right down the middle.