marjorum

English

Noun

marjorum (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of marjoram.
   • 1847, Modern Standard Drama, page 31:

     ‘The striped carnation, and the guarded rose,
     ‘The vulgar wall-flower, and smart gilly-flower,
     ‘The polyanthus mean—the dapper daisy,
     ‘Sweet William, and sweet marjorum—and all
     ‘The tribe of single and of double pinks!

   • 1850, Harper's Magazine, volume 1, page 449:

     The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.

   • 1853, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 42, page 45:

     Amaracus, a page of Cynarus, King of Cyprus, was so afflicted at having accidentally broken a vase which he was entrusted, and thus spilling a very precious ointment which it contained, that he died of grief, and the pitying gods changed him into the fragrant marjorum.

   • 1858, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 44, page 69:

     “The primrose, the spring’s own spouse;
     Bright day’s eyes, and the lips of cows;
     The garden star, the queen of May,
     The rose to crown the holiday—
     Rain roses still:
     Bring corn, flax, tulips, and Adonis’ flower,
     Flower-gentle, and the fair-haired hyacinth,
     Bring gladdest myrtle,
     With spikenard weaved, and marjorum between;
     And starred with yellow-golds and meadows’ green—
     The breath thereof Panchaia may envy,
     The colors China, and the light the sky.