blossome

Noun

blossom (countable and uncountable, plural blossoms)

1. A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.
   • The blossom has come early this year.
2. The state or season of producing such flowers.
   • The orchard is in blossom.
3. (figuratively) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
   • This beauty, in the blossom of my youth, / When my first fire knew no adulterate incense, / Nor I no way to flatter, but my fondness; / […] long did I love this lady, / Long was my travail, long my trade to win her; / With all the duty of my soul, I served her.c. 1619–1622, Philip Massinger, “A Very Woman”, in Three New Playes: viz. The Bashful Lover, Guardian, Very Woman. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, act IV, scene iii...
4. The colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs.
   • For colour he [Nobs, a horse] was neither black-bay, brown-bay, dapple-bay, black-grey, iron-grey, sad-grey, branded-grey, sandy-grey, dapple-grey, silver-grey, dun, mouse-dun, flea-backed, flea-bitten, rount, blossom, roan, pye-bald, rubican, sorrel, cow-coloured sorrel, bright sorrel, burnt...1834–1847, Robert Southey, “A Feeble Attempt to Describe the Physical and Moral Qualities of Nobs”, in John Wood Warter, editor, The Doctor, &c., London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and...

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