slipper-orchid

slipper-orchid englanniksi

1. (alt form of).

2. 1919, Firbank|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.