slipper-orchid

English

Noun

slipper-orchid

  1. Alternative form of slipper orchid.
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 22
      In the taper-lit, perhaps pre-sixteeth-century room - a piece of Laughing and Triumphing needlework in the style of Rubens completely hid the walls - the capacious oval of the dinner-table, crowned by a monteith bowl filled with slipper-orchids, showed agreeably enough.
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