chrysalid
Americannoun
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a chrysalis.
adjective
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of a chrysalis.
noun
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another name for chrysalis
adjective
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of or relating to a chrysalis
Etymology
Origin of chrysalid
1770–80; representing stem of Greek chrȳsallís chrysalis
Example Sentences
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Typical chrysalid hostess is short, black-haired Gloria Gooze, 20, refugee from movie ambitions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, my friend, I can live no longer this dull chrysalid life, in comparison with which, at times, even that past dark dream seems tolerable—for amid its lurid smoke were flashes of brightness.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles
Keats was famous and already gathered to the immortals at an age at which Shakespeare was still in the chrysalid stage of the actual buskin and sock.
From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur
From the room across the hall she brought Celia, a chrysalid child, sleeping heavily, closely wrapped in an old plaid shawl, and laid her on Joel's bed.
From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Smith, Harriet L.
At this demand, the shriveled woman raised her bony form, flung off her rags, and grew tall and radiant, smiling as she broke forth from the dark chrysalid sheath.
From Christ in Flanders by Marriage, Ellen
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