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The flower of the marigold (q.v.). Like many other flowers, they open at daybreak and close at sunset.
“And winking marybuds begin
To ope their golden eyes.”
Shakespeae: Cymbeline, ii. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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