(n.) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.
(n.) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
Example Sentences:
(1) ☞ Jimmy Cowan of Aston Villa overpowering the great Steve Bloomer in 1897!
(2) "Derby County's idolising of Steve Bloomer takes some beating," writes Matt Lewis.
(3) This study was designed to test the concurrent validity of the revised Task-Oriented Assessment (TOA) component of the Bay Area Functional Performance Evaluation (BaFPE) (Bloomer & Williams, 1979) with Part 1 of the American Association on Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) (Nihira, Foster, Shellhaas, & Leland, 1969, 1974) and to develop a means of interpretation for the numeric scores on the TOA.
(4) Reanalyses of Year 1 data based on these follow-up outcomes demonstrated that only late bloomers used more communicative gestures than did language-matched controls.
(5) Late bloomers also used more communicative gestures than did age-matched controls, suggesting that they (the late bloomers) were using gestures to compensate for their small oral expressive vocabulary.
(6) I'm a late bloomer: I like to come to things at my own tempo.
(7) Ibanez, in his third stint with the Mariners and old enough to remember what it was like to play in the Kingdome, Seattle's previous home , is a bit of a late bloomer.
(8) Phil Bloomer, Oxfam 's director of campaigns, was more blunt: "Every year we delay an estimated 150,000 people will have died and a further 1 million displaced as a result of climate change."
(9) Others were being used as evacuation centres, said Bloomer, making it important to find alternative spaces.
(10) "We cooked for the nuns, we washed their big bloomers, we cleaned their rooms.
(11) She spent £1,168 on champagne and flowers, mostly at the Auntie's Bloomers shop at the BBC Television Centre in west London, between 22 March 2004 and 26 November 2004.
(12) And now it has Bodvarsson, a rare Icelandic league late bloomer.
(13) One senior City fund manager said the Prudential was a strong enough name to find support for the cash call, its second in six years following the £1bn rights issue in 2004 that ultimately cost then-chief executive Jonathan Bloomer his job .
(14) Previous X-ray studies (2.8-A resolution) on the crystals of tobacco mosaic virus protein (TMVP) grown from solutions containing high salt have characterized the structure of the protein aggregate as a bilayered cylindrical disk formed by 34 identical subunits [Bloomer, A.C., Champness, J.N., Bricogne, G., Staden, R., & Klug, A.
(15) The Xenopus 5S RNA replication-expression model of Gottesfeld and Bloomer (Cell 28:781-791, 1982) and Wormington et al.
(16) Oxfam's campaigns and policy director, Phil Bloomer, said: "E.ON's plans to cancel building a new coal plant at Kingsnorth is a welcome reprieve for the millions of poor people already living on the frontline of climate change.
(17) A handful of investors are understood be considering whether to bypass the chairman, Sir David Clementi, who has been unflinching in his support for chief executive Jonathan Bloomer, and approach the senior non-executive, Rob Rowley, instead.
(18) Results showed that all 4 children who were truly delayed at follow-up had been delayed in language comprehension at the first visit, but the 6 late bloomers had been at the same level as their age-matched controls.
(19) It's difficult to get one's Review Show bloomers in a twist over, say, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue , a Spanish "eco-zombie" boggler in which swarthy extras lumber, plank–armed, through the Peak District while dressed like Jethro Tull after an industrial farming tragedy (sample line: "I'm mad about apples!").
(20) Phil Bloomer is the executive director of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre .
Blossom
Definition:
(n.) The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.
(n.) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
(n.) The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.
(n.) To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
(n.) To flourish and prosper.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A typical day in London would be: wake up hungover, try to get some breakfast in you," he says, barrelling along green-tunnelled country lanes through – as he puts it in Jerusalem – the "wild garlic and May blossom" that mean winter is over.
(2) Simmer for 2 minutes then stir in the orange zest, orange blossom water and vanilla extract.
(3) Time, he reasoned, to let a new and younger leadership “blossom”.
(4) The aim will be to try and keep market interest rate expectations low to allow the nascent recovery to blossom into something stronger and more sustainable," Wood said.
(5) Bibi-watchers are focused now on how the Israeli leader will play the next six months, in which the Geneva agreement will either blossom into a lasting accord or break apart.
(6) In your magazine, there was a beautifully written article by Dan Pearson on spring blossom, observed at a time of great personal stress.
(7) We meet at the headquarters of the Independent and the Evening Standard in Kensington, in an office scented by a Jo Malone orange blossom candle, and groaning with contemporary art.
(8) That moment, however, before the blossom breaks, is perhaps the most wondrous.
(9) On Saturdays, the farmers market blossoms in the parking lot outside with producers and “street fooders”.
(10) During that summer of 1956, Khrushchev's thaw blossomed and Muscovites relaxed a little more.
(11) Downstairs in the shopping centre I find Blossom and Nick, a rather eccentric pair who met 12 years ago in a queue for The Wright Stuff and quickly became engaged.
(12) However, one must consider the attitudes that prevailed at the time, the high rate of fetal and infant mortality, and the blossoming role of museums as repositories of knowledge.
(13) But to do Hakone justice, find a reasonably priced ryokan and take a couple of days to explore the volcanic geysers of Owakudani, the botanical gardens, the cherry blossom in spring and Hakone shrine on the shore of the lake.
(14) Below my window in Ross, when I'm working in Ross, for example, there at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early.
(15) He rises early to paint nature in all her wild exuberance … (the blossom) is as if a thick white cream had been poured over everything … just an intense visual pleasure."
(16) Clementine and dark chocolate trifle (above) This recipe gives classic trifle a zingy twist with clementines and orange blossom; a great make-ahead dinner party dessert.
(17) Innovations in drug delivery systems and skyrocketing health care costs have fostered the growth of home health care which has blossomed into a $2.8 billion industry.
(18) Their brains are unable to make the neural connections that they should; their cognitive ability does not blossom.
(19) But even as error rates stayed stable, student essays have blossomed in size and complexity.
(20) Under Pep Guardiola, the under-21 international has blossomed into a midfield leader and played as a makeshift centre-back in impressive fashion.