holly-berry

holly-berry (plural holly-berries)

1. Alternative form of holly berry.
   • 1865, Augustus Mayhew, “Suspicions and Insults”, in Faces for Fortunes. […], volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 241:

     We saw the villain pluck a cluster of holly-berries, which the misled angel fastened in her brooch.

   • [1886], [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘And the Last Pang Shall Tear Thee from His Heart’”, in Mohawks […], volume III, London: John and Robert Maxwell […], →OCLC, page 289:

     The table was loaded with the usual substantial fare; but Irene’s light hands had assisted the housekeeper in decorating the board with holly-berries and greenery, and such winter flowers as the gardener could find for her in an age when the first hothouse ever built in England was yet a novelty.

   • 1960, Eilís Dillon, chapter 6, in The Head of the Family, Dublin: Poolbeg Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 90:

     Every part of her was alive, springing with vitality: her curling black shining hair, her glittering snow-white forehead, her flashing, sparkling, dark-blue eyes, her lips like holly-berries, her strong clean long-fingered hands at rest now on the table.

   • 1976, George W. Kelly, “C. phaenopyrum, (cordata) WASHINGTON HAWTHORN”, in Trees for the Rocky Mountains, [Cortez, Colo.?]: Rocky Mountain Horticultural Publishing Co., →OCLC, “Deciduous Trees for the Rocky Mountain Area” section, page 37:

     Bright-red fruits hang on long and look like holly-berries.

   • 1987, Judy Taylor, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”, in Judy Taylor, Joyce Irene Whalley, Anne Stevenson Hobbs, Elizabeth M Battrick, Beatrix Potter 1866–1943: The Artist and Her World, London: Frederick Warne & Co.; National Trust, →ISBN, page 102:

     She kept her colours pale and offset her earlier fear of too much rabbit brown and green by introducing the red-breasted robin into two more of the pictures, red gooseberries into another and holly-berries into a third.