a. Also poet. blosmy. [f. as prec. + -Y1.] Covered or adorned with blossoms; flowery.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, II. 772. With blosmy bowis grene. Ibid. (c. 1386), Merch. T., 219. And blosmy tree nys neither drye ne deed.
1798. Coleridge, Nightingale, 79. On blosmy twig still swinging from the breeze.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 31. That bit of grassy and blossomy earth … is very dear to me.
1831. Alford, in Life (1873), 68. The blos’my groves of paradise.
fig. 1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. X. i. 570. Leafy, blossomy Forest of Literature.
1877. Blackie, Wise Men Gr., 93. What he knew he sung With blossomy phrase.
