Citations:lilypond

Noun: "a pond in which water lilies grow"

 * 1939 — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, page 98:
 * He had walked towards the middle of an ornamental lilypond when innebriated up to the point where braced shirts meet knickerbockers,
 * 1941 — Upton Sinclar, Between Two Worlds I, Simon Publications (2001), ISBN 1931313024, page 3:
 * Only van Gogh's sunrise and Monet's lilypond had their glories undiminished
 * 1952 — John Wallace Pritchard, Every Crazy Wind, Dodd, Mead, & Company, page 150:
 * Helena saw Lacy again the following afternoon, beside the lilypond.
 * 1980 — John Newton Chance, A Place Called Skull, Ulverscroft Large Print Books (2001), ISBN 9780708997130, page 62:
 * We came in sight of the lilypond.
 * 1984 — Marian Eldridge, Walking the Dog, University of Queensland Press (1984), ISBN 0702217859, page 36:
 * Without so much as a backward glance at the house the girl dumped Mother's cherished roses in the lilypond and ran straight across the beds of iris and rosemary to the waiting boy.
 * 1997 — Bill Cooper & Laurel Cooper, Back Door to Byzantium: To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe, Sheridan House (1997), ISBN 9781574090437, page 58:
 * Gustavsburg was like a seaside model village, there was a lilypond outside the Post Office where we bought some stamps (one mark! That's nearly 50 pence for a stamp!) and some fruit and vegetables at a chic fruitique close to a fountain.
 * 2000 — Bruce Beasley, "The White Children of Macon", in Signs and Abominations, Wesleyan University Press (2000), ISBN 0819564567, page 74:
 * In Baconsfield Park, the bear
 * and the peacock stared
 * from their tiny cages by the cultivated
 * bamboo jungle, where we'd play Vietnam,
 * hurling pecan bombs on the lilypond.
 * 2003 — Mike Parker & Paul Whitfield, Wales, Rough Guides (2003), ISBN 9781843531203, page 126:
 * Seldom busy, the gardens offer everything from formal lilyponds and billiard table-smooth lawns to joyous bursts of floral colour and the russets, golds and greens of an arboretum.
 * 2006 — Robert Minhinnick, To Babel and Back, Seren (2006), ISBN 9781854114013, page 102:
 * But Biffer held on tight, speaking of cafes that served liquorice and lemonade, of railway stations where the guards were post-impressionists and the conveniences green and weedy lilyponds.