crocusy

adj

1. (rare)Resembling or characteristic of crocuses.

   “You don’t think that perhaps a big chou and ends of pale yellow chiffon—the nice spring crocusy yellow—would improve me?”

   “Now you have come to see / Out yonder where I go, / You ’ll find your way to follow me— / There ’s the world for you to outgrow, / There ’s Power to be overcome, / There ’s more of you to be, / More of man-total sum / Of soul ere you come to me / The way I go, wholly out there / In the crocusy air— / There ’s to reach and to be / More of you yet, more of me.”

   “He designed a dress for her, and had it made as a studio property of his own—a sort of crocusy affair, mauve silk, slashed with purple streaks—a dancer’s skirt, rather full—and she has such pretty legs.”

   “When you swap your winter woolies for the crocusy cottons of spring, treat your room to the same sort of seasonal freshening-up.”

   “You have dressed festive altars in colored wreaths, painted them fresh with flowery threads. A golden, crocusy line goes forth, and here a purple row of violets, flushed scarlet meets milky white.”

2. (rare)Featuring crocuses.

   “Spring should have begun, yesterday, in earnest but the weather hangs back this year and so far there has not been much “Spring by advance installments.” There hasn’t been a real, balmy, crocusy, johnnyjumpup, Spring day, yet, and this is the 22nd.o f^([sic]) March.”

   “Having reported all this, consider the significance on such a wonderful, balmy, crocusy day. Lady Bird Johnson can look out from the second-floor White House porch and visualize big beds of tulips in bloom both on the wide lawn and in every planting area in the land.”

   “Each year Harrods has participated in the Festival of Stores and to advertise its own contribution of a Festival of Flowers another whole page in the Evening Standard proclaimed: Everything’s looking rosy, daffodilly, crocusy, forget-me-notty, snowdroppy, marigoldy, carnationy, narcissusy, hollyhocky, buttercuppy, irisy, geraniumy, chrysanthemumy, foxglovey, honeysuckly, hyacinthy, lupiny, rhododendrony, and astery at Harrods for the next eleven days.”

   “I had swallowed the laudanum and was drifting into sweet untroubled dreams of rocking Swing-O-Matics, Home-and-School Association meetings, Easter egg hunts in crocusy backyards, yearly pilgrimages to Storybook Gardens, and cute guys in spandex.”

   “On one of these walks, towards the end of the month, they sat peacefully together under a pear tree in a ‘crocusy field, perfect stillness, grey, hazy, mysterious’.”