Festucine Definition
adjective
1853, F. H. Stauffer, Rose May, the new School-Mistress, in The Family Fire-Side Book, page 314.
[…] ; and during the controversy and distracted attention, a beautiful young lady, habited in a black silk pelisse, a festucine dress, and an envious little straw bonnet, stepped out of the opposite side of the coach.
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1913, John Myers O'Hara, Heliogabalus, in Pagan Sonnets, page 10.
[…] laid.
Upon thy pouting lips the drench of wine!
Above thy brow they massed the festucine.
Tresses and bound them with a mitra's braid;
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noun
(organic chemistry) Loline, an alkaloid with the formula C₈H₁₄N₂O.
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