[Vwoolf] "foaming"

[Marie Claire Boisset]

Might « billowing » be another, related word in this context?😊

Marie Claire Boisset Pestourie 
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Address  2 rue Traversière, 19100 Brive-La-Gaillarde, France  
Phone  +33 (0)5 55 88 29 61 
Mobile   +33 (0)6 38 83 73 21 
Email  mc at clarior.net 
  
  
   

> Le 19 juil. 2022 à 20:40, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> a écrit :
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> An Australian friend visited me recently and remarked on the remarkable number (to her) of window-boxes and hanging baskets she had noticed in Wales and England.
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> “And leaning down over a foaming window-box, one [young man] stopped another hurrying past, and upstairs they went and down they went, until a sort of fulness settled on the [Trinity] court ...” (JR, ch. III)
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> The poetical word “foaming” suggests to me that the window-box is overflowing with WHITE flowers.
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> Below are two photos from our local garden centre: the first (which is not a window-box) is not overflowing, but the second (the hanging basket) could perhaps be described as “foaming”.
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