golden cup

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golden cup (plural golden cups)

  1. (now rare) Any of various buttercups (genus Ranunculus). [from 18th c.]
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 234:
      [T]heir maid has dressed their hats with cowslips, orchisses, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups […] .
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