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adjective

Full-blown adj.

Fully expanded, as a blossom; completely developed; as, a full-blown rose.

Fully distended with wind, as a sail.

Hence: Of full intensity; as, the recession developed into full-blown depression; a full-blown international crisis.

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Etymology of 'Full-blown'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Full-blown" Quotes from Famous Books

... he sat with great dignity in Grandfather's chair; and, being a portly old gentleman, he completely filled it from elbow to elbow. On the opposite side of the room, between her bridemaids, sat Miss Betsey. She was blushing with all her might, and looked like a full-blown peony, or ...

— Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools • Emilie Kip Baker

... I had quite recovered from influenza and my accident, and as they would not arrive till near nightfall, for their edification I was to be dressed in full-blown dinner costume, also I was to be favoured with a look at my reflection in a mirror for the first ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... on irresistibly.' But why did the rolling myth gather such very strange moss? That is the problem; and, while Mr. Muller's hypothesis accounts for the existence of a god called [Greek], it does not even attempt to show how full-blown Greeks came to believe such hideous stories ...

— Custom and Myth • Andrew Lang

... decorated with bits of boxwood behind each ear. What matters it, after all, if the child has imagination? A star reflected in a gutter will reveal to him an immense nocturnal poem; and he will breathe all the intoxication of summer in the full-blown rose which the grisette from the next house lets fall from ...

— A Romance of Youth, Complete • Francois Coppee

... Proudie, who was so well known and so little loved by the readers of Mr. Trollope's novels, is one of those occasions which ought not to be allowed to pass away without being improved. To many men it will suggest many things. She was a type. As a type ought to be, she was perfect and full-blown. But her characteristics enter into other women in varying degrees, and with all sorts of minor colors. The Proudie element in wives and women is one of those unrecognised yet potent conditions of life which master us all, and yet are admitted and taken into calculation ...

— Modern Women and What is Said of Them - A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) • Anonymous

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