How To Use Bloomer In A Sentence

An early season bloomer, about 18-inches tall, its subtle fragrance has been described as elegant, sweet, and tartly fruity.
We won't wear "bloomers," or make any attempt to imitate you in our dress, manners, or occupations; we will do nothing to offend the most fastidious, we will be women still. The Womans Advocate
He has made some bloomers in his time, from the failed bid for American General to his company's attempts to ratchet up his pay just as policyholders' bonuses were going in the other direction.
Indeed, Moliere was such a late bloomer as a writer that we don't even know what questions to ask.
It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo. Jill the Reckless

The duck print Viyella baby blouse & bloomers made in '81 - fabric bought by my MIL in '52. Oh, Fabric, Why Can't I Quit You? - A Dress A Day
Leech had a picture of "A Quiet Smoke" in _Punch_, which depicted five ladies in short wide skirts and "bloomers" in a tobacconist's shop, two smoking cigars and one a pipe, while "one of the inferior animals" behind the counter was selling tobacco. The Social History of Smoking
An sparsely populated, ungroomed black run is relatively much safer than a crowded 'bloomer'. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
This heavy bloomer gets its name from the way each flower bud swells before its starry petals unfold.
The natives had probably smelted it themselves in their rude bloomeries, or obtained it from the Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers
But they didn't wear bloomers, and they only put their karosses around their shoulders when it was cold.
Wearing bloomers which are generally shorter in length will achieve an active style.
Although the early history of ironmaking and ironworking in Kingston is lost to us, it is clear that by 1728, iron was being made by direct reduction and converted to products on a triphammer at the ‘Old Forge,’ a bloomery on Hall's Brook.
Tall spring bloomers that stand on their own and that are easy to grow are agapanthus, alliums, blood lilies, and African irises.
Just south of the region, on the South Fork of Holston River, are two other such bloomeries, Nichols 'and Barton's Forges. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Casual gardeners may envision low shrubs with puffball blooms in shades of pink and blue, but these so-called mophead hydrangeas—technically known as Hydrangea macrophylla—are only the most common varietal out there, and in my experience, aren't reliable bloomers. Hydrangeas' Fall Flower Show
Lilly, newly returned and heavy once more beneath her skulls, traced the outrage of a pinion koala on the lifeboat, her finish slowly coming to a hammer then tapping like a television as she circled her cheeseboard against the woodpile, leaving one pallbearer sundae, one bloomer sprain. Farouche
The bloomers and a chemise would have gone under layers and layers of corsetry and petticoats, which could weigh up to 7lb.
To Jules -- our most fragrant daphne shrubs are blooming as we speak -- a winter bloomer with the most gorgeous perfume ever -- it lifts my heart in winter while waiting for the Spring lift -- and I hope it will lift your heart when u may be grieving. Paradis - French Word-A-Day
I never did, but I was a late bloomer, and had not yet begun to date in earnest by the time I was sixteen. DOWNTOWN
I was standing before him in just my corset and bloomers.
We redid out packs organizing them, my skirt and top were dirty, wrinkled, and still wet so I folded them and put them in my pack, deciding to walk in my bloomers and corset.
Put in a sweet-smelling night-bloomer like moonflower or Nicotiana sylvestris around your spa.
Katherine pulled her undershirt and bloomers off and threw them onto the floor.
I'd prefer to think of Maggie as a late bloomer, one of those bored, too-bright-for-their-own-good students so advanced that their minds wander to loftier thoughts.
The bloomers and a chemise would have gone under layers and layers of corsetry and petticoats, which could weigh up to 7lb.
The buttoned, calf-length tunic and wide-legged bloomers left everything to the imagination. The Times Literary Supplement
So if you're a late bloomer, it's not too late, it may take you longer to accomplish some goals if you wait too long into your final semester, but the resources at your school are there for you when you're ready, not the other way around.
These rebloomers are wonderful in floral bouquets where they perfume an entire room.
Evening bloomers, daylily cultivars that flower in the evening and remain open until the following day, also are available.
Another of my favorite late bloomers is purple monkshood, or aconitum. Kentucky.com: Homepage
Miss Drexel, seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers, ran along the sand and dropped the skirt for a foothold for the slowly revolving wheels. WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
About 45 minutes later, he committed his bloomer, and there is no doubt in my mind that the champion jockey made the elementary mistake of thinking that he had the race won aboard the second - favourite.
I had on a standard breast band, a loincloth, a camisole and a corset, bloomers, petticoats and then a slip.
Remember that in matrimony, as in everything else it is the premier "bloomer" which blows up les châteaux en Espagne. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
SPRING TV FORECAST: Early bloomers emerge in midseason field Fox's 'Dollhouse' is its own worst enemy
Fredrik Wentzel (Almtuna) — Second-year eligible is a classic late bloomer who has come out of nowhere and continued to impress us by taking Almtuna to the Swedish Elite League qualifying round, posting great numbers. After top prospects Hall, Seguin, draft will be one giant jumble
This repeat bloomer also can be trained into intricate shapes.
Late bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? Red Flags or Red Herrings?
I, for instance, invented a dress -- a kind of bloomer thing -- only it wasn't a bloomer. Lady Connie
To doubt this fact is to commit a bloomer.
Lightly prune midseason bloomers in late winter or early spring.
Lilly, newly returned and heavy once more beneath her skulls, traced the outrage of a pinion koala on the lifeboat, her finish slowly coming to a hammer then tapping like a television as she circled her cheeseboard against the woodpile, leaving one pallbearer sundae, one bloomer sprain. Farouche
In Cherokee the hematite ores outcrop in immense quantities along the Hiawassee and Valley rivers, and, when wrought in the commonest county bloomeries, have yielded an astonishing per cent. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
A bee in her butt, a burr in her bloomers.
I had visions of running over to the fresh bread counter, ripping the crust off a large bloomer and burying my face in the soft, warm expanse of white loaf.
‘Brandywine’, ‘Blue Muffin’, ‘Winterthur’, opulus ‘Xanthocarpum’, ‘Cardinal Candy’, three of those, and an unknown spring bloomer whose berries are quickly eaten by the birds. Berries For MMD « Fairegarden
I hate the phrase late bloomers ," our gawky heroine laments. The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
The languid one commented upon the female fetich, the skirt, and condemned "bloomers," whereupon Glory declared that they were just charming, and being challenged (by a gentleman) for her reasons she said, "Because when a girl's got them on she feels as if she's an understudy for a man, and may even have a chance of playing the part itself in another and a better world. The Christian A Story
So, if your daughter is a ‘late bloomer,’ it doesn't necessarily mean there's something wrong with her.
In the old days, women wore so many girdles, corsets, pantaloons, bloomers, stockings, garters, step-ins and God knows what all that you had to practically be a prospector to get to first base . . . to even find first base. The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Tench Coxe in 1810 ranked the state second only to New Jersey in the number of "bloomeries. From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina
The 23-year-old has been on the circuit for nearly a decade but was a late bloomer.
The bloomers and a chemise would have gone under layers and layers of corsetry and petticoats, which could weigh up to 7lb.
Lives do not always proceed in predictable patterns, and we may have a choice between a classic late bloomer who has just reached his powers, and a morning glory, who hit his peak early and has not matched it since.
A few will describe certain plants as continuous bloomers, but even these usually have a period of peak bloom.
For what the bright eyed youth had said was true, her skirts were indeed neatly tucked into the back of her bloomers, revealing acres of leg and frilly pantaloons to all!
she was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing
There were no safety-pins, but lots of sass, in short, draped bloomers, or bondage mico-shorts, tightly belted over ripped and torn pastel leggings. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
But if you see a new scape rising at the base of a blooming plant, the plant is a repeat bloomer.
And Bourbons, unlike the albas, are repeat bloomers.
Add to that the recent "bloomer" by Godfrey Bloom in Strasbourg, when the Yorkshire MEP pronounced that the role of women was to "clean behind the ‘fridges", and UKIP’s stock could be on the wane. Excellent news for Eurosceptics?
I came to many things late in life, and am something of a late bloomer, if you will.
‘I'm a late bloomer, that's for sure,’ he says with a laugh.
Remaining in bloomers and the frilly corset, I darted from the cover.
Promoted by feminists such as Frances Willard, the bicycle allowed women independent mobility and gave them reason to wear bloomers rather than sweeping skirts.
The bud bloomer form has been popular in Germany for many years and was developed from a cross between Calluna vulgaris and a moorland calluna, which had grown with unopened flowers.
Female admirers showered Joe with a variety of panties, thongs and even a pair of bloomers and a bra as he belted out a succession of instantly recognisable Dolan chart-toppers spanning - would you believe - four decades.
Hope gave a sharp downward tug on her skirt, letting it fall to the ground, revealing a pair of loose-fitting, teal bloomers, ‘Get out of here, now!’
American growth in the wake of independence from Britain resulted in a steady demand for Salisbury iron, which bloomery forge operators met with unsophisticated but valued wrought iron products for the next half century.
It is probable that the "blomes" referred to in this agreement were the bloomeries or fires in which the iron was made; and that the Industrial Biography
I stared at the women's bloomers, dirt-covered toes and dusty feet, and marveled at streets.
So we mixed with some antic elements. For instance, the obese bloomers and the large collar.
The ‘official uniform’ consisted of a blue skirt and walking bloomers, a white blouse, a hat, walking shoes, a mackintosh, and a sweater.
The daylily is a very early bloomer with a tag of Lemon Lily, Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus. May Bloom Day 2009 « Fairegarden
Music-hall dancers called for shortened skirts, and their high kicks gave more emphasis to the ruffled underside and bloomers than to the exterior of the garments.
She walked into the water wetting her bloomers.
These sturdy bloomers can be handled by machine in plant-growing factories.
I am a lot of things and trans, transsexual, or late-bloomer is the least of me. Genetic link to gender identity?
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At 6-7/187, the late bloomer is a 1988 birthdate who still must be drafted, so many teams have made special trips in to see him during the second half. Red Line: Under-18 World Championships provide a showcase
Recently our bickering politicians committed a bloomer.
The garden is taking on its autumn hues and late-flowering plants dominate while early bloomers fade.
Lightly prune midseason bloomers in late winter or early spring.
I was your classic 90-pound weakling and, worse, a late bloomer.
Here are a couple of other spellcheck bloomers, from technical articles in broadcasting journals. Times, Sunday Times
In 1695, John Hathaway, who settled in nearby Freetown, in company with other citizens, set up a bloomery known as Chartley Iron Works on Stony Brook.
At the same time, the master does not cry 'haro' on the 'bloomer.' With Zola in England
The whole place seemed one huge parterre of bloomery; even traders set bouquets in every shop and stall, and the scented air was heavy with perfume. Arabian nights. English
The flat, strappy foliage of the exotic night bloomer contrasts texturally with a bed companion, the enormous, finely cut fronds of an Australian tree fern.
An old classic June bloomer in cooler areas, ‘Lord of June’ tall bearded iris, may open in April or May in the South.
Because the old fashioned bloomeries and Catalan forges could produce blooms only at a high cost, and because the new processes introduced failed to turn out good blooms. Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.
Sure, I was a late bloomer compared to all those other people who were born with a tennis racket in hand.
The chase scene, and her sped-up sprint through a backlot in hoop skirt and bloomers, are pure slapstick.
Eric gave Cathena his coat that he managed to hang onto because, at this point, all the Castillian woman had on was stockings, bloomers and a corset.
My favourite night-bloomer is the evening primrose which seeds itself all over the garden, appearing as if by magic in dull corners which it brings to light with clumps of glorious bloom often as much as six feet high.
Here are a couple of other spellcheck bloomers, from technical articles in broadcasting journals. Times, Sunday Times
I had to wear a corselet and these awful bloomers with lace on the bottom of them.
When blossoms of early bloomers wither, she removes them by hand, leaving areas of green leaves between the remaining areas of color.
Bicycle skirts of a shorter length and bicycle bloomers soon became popular, but from some elicited cries of indignation.
The furnaces used locally mined ore, charcoal and hand powered bellows, and evolved into what was known as a ‘high bloomery’ furnace, capable of smelting large amounts of iron.
It was a challenge for a young lady who had once cried, ‘Mommy, I simply cannot go another day without a pair of proper bloomers!’
At 30, he is a rarity - a late bloomer who only began to make his mark at an age when most of his contemporaries have had enough of chalk dust and limb stretching.
He made a tremendous bloomer.
Over the course of the year, Farnham learned how to shingle a roof, wear bloomers, and repair a fence.
Miss Drexel, seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers, ran along the sand and dropped the skirt for a foothold for the slowly revolving wheels. WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
Most of the small Dahlias are early and profuse bloomers, starting to flower in July and continuing right through till frost.
Rather than planting everything that blooms at the same time in close proximity, distribute the groups of early-, mid-, and late-season bloomers around the garden.
Or you can stagger the bloom time by planting mid- and late-season bloomers together, creating a spring display that blooms in succession, for a whole season of color!
These include Cottage Loaves, Rye bread, Multi-seed, the classic Bloomer as well as finger rolls, torpedoes and much more.
Here are a couple of other spellcheck bloomers, from technical articles in broadcasting journals. Times, Sunday Times
They are found throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic to the Tropics and, as a group, tend to be early bloomers that put out masses of flowers that turn into masses of hips (good bird food).
The following list is by no means exhaustive, but will give you ideas for some early bloomers that are good bets for producing flowers in late winter and early spring.
And he's not even remotely done -- there are still matts in his armpits and groin, his belly and tail and legs aren't brushed, there's still dead coat in his ruff and bloomers and some scattered bits elsewhere that haven't given up the ghost yet ... and he still needs his toenails cut. Skin as white as a cuttlefish bone
To check the hypothesis for the bloomery smithing at Tekeli Tepe, we sampled fully preserved smithing cakes from this area to be sent to Belgium for detailed morphological study of the slag profile. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 5
I was, obviously, a late bloomer, and I thought I would never change.
He parodied my groping stumble across the stage to the podium and gathered up the skirt to reveal hairy legs and bloomers.
Rivas considers herself a late bloomer in the art form, though.
And the funniest one I recall was of a lady whose elastic burst in the bloomers, very long ones, and her daughter actually brought this specific pair in to show us all, and they were huge, and came down at that stage well past her knees.
Given this culture, the delight of abandoning long skirts and dresses, corsets and tight waists, and high button shoes for the bloomers, middy blouses, and comfortable walking shoes of camp was a welcomed liberty.
The popularity of the bicycle, which enabled women much more freedom (and also brought about the grudging acceptance of the bloomer) from chaperonage and from past restrictions concerning their contact with places outside of the home. Introduction: Edwardian Women’s Fashions | Edwardian Promenade
Purchase this type of shrub rose, and you'll have a recurrent bloomer that will flower profusely several times a year.
It represents the period of transition between unpowered bloomeries and blast furnaces, and will add a great deal to our knowledge of early iron working in the Lake District.
Other coloured knickers, bloomers, pants and drawers peeping out of the top of low slung trackies do not count.
She pointed out, continuing to remove her clothes until she stood in front of them with only a pair of bloomers and an undershirt.
They were replaced by short skirts and bloomers and, eventually, just form-fitting shorts and shirts.
The quince is a long bloomer here and always cheers us. Time Marches On-2009 Bloom Day « Fairegarden
This book will be in the new type with a fresh set of historiated 'bloomers' designed by C.R. ASHBEE. 250 copies. Mr. Edward Arnold's New and Popular Books, December, 1901
Tuck summer bloomers like purple verbena, yellow daisylike helianthus, purple coneflower, and coreopsis behind it.
But the government has its pride; it is yet to admit that it had committed a bloomer which needs to be rectified posthaste.
The Woodlawn Forge, on Staley's Creek near the middle of the Crockett Tract, was built in 1857 by Mr. John P. Wright, and is a bloomery just like the others so common southwestward in these mountains, with one fire and one hammer and water blast; and run like them, by fits and starts, with a very small yearly yield. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
It is probable that the "blomes" referred to in this agreement were the bloomeries or fires in which the iron was made; and that the "olyveres" were forges or erections, each of which contained so many bloomeries, but were of limited durability, and probably perished in the using. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers
What can I say; I'm a late bloomer in many things.
From now through mid-March, deciduous trees show off their elegant forms, primroses are in flower, and winter bloomers such as witch hazel and sarcococca are perfuming the air.
That they ran altogether upon bloomeries in New England and Pennsylvania, till his example had made them attempt greater works. The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published
So apparently this was a true blast furnace and not merely a bloomery.
This early summer bloomer native to Tibet is like no other.
The smelting of iron in bloomeries began in the second millennium BC. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
As for you being a late bloomer, it's more significant that you've accomplished the first step toward a potentially rewarding career - once you figure out what it is.
The natives had probably smelted it themselves in their rude bloomeries, or obtained it from the Phoenicians in small quantities in exchange for skins and food, or tin. Industrial Biography
This anxiety over bloomers is evident in an 1889 article describing a women's athletic club. "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
The pyrenean prunella has large purple heads; the false dragonhead (_Physostegia_), pale rose-purple spikes; centranthuses, cymes of red and white; centaureas, heads of yellow, blue, and purple; pinks, divers shades of red and white; and monkshoods, hoods of blue or white; and all are very hardy, ready growers, and copious bloomers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
I've also made some 'bloomer' pettitpants to wear mostly for warmth, (under my skirts) but a long-time dresses-only friend suggested them for ease of sitting on the floor, or more active duties in a dress. Home Living
Tuck summer bloomers like purple verbena, yellow daisylike helianthus, purple coneflower, and coreopsis behind it.
Ten years of girls' boarding schools decked out in mauve tunics, jumper, mauve tie and mauve bloomers gave me a certain antipathy to the colour.
More crumb less crust, we use artisan baguette dough, baked as a pointy bloomer, and top with poppy seeds.
Brandon was a late bloomer in motorsport, starting in karts in his late teens.
But I was a late "bloomer"-my first set of braces got taken off before I had started going through puberty..so my facial bone structure hadn't grown all the way yet..and my mom even warned her that all her kids are late-bloomers. Posterior Crossbite
He parodied my groping stumble across the stage to the podium and gathered up the skirt to reveal hairy legs and bloomers.
As for underwear changing its role from garment of modesty to garment of display, just what was there about the bloomers of our grandmothers, or the vests and long johns favoured by our grandfathers, that should make us feel nostalgic?
‘Everyone's got a bit of a wrinkle in their bloomers, Mister Christopher,’ she told him, smiling a little wider.
This late-bloomer is still gaining acceptance as an offensive force, so pardon the rest of baseball for being slow to getting around to the idea that he's a strong defender, too. All-Defensive Team: Players who measure up
She had done up her hair as was befitting royalty, and had placed a wreath of duskbloomers, a soft purple flower, intertwined with coral and pearls as a crown.
One or two Members questioned this and when he sat down he realized he had made a 'bloomer'. Forty Years in the British House of Commons
Next comes a long cotton hip wrap, like a half-slip, then a pair of long bloomers to preserve modesty should the front fold of the kimono open. Geisha, A Life
A Sterling Cycle Works ad read, For Bloomers: Ladies who cycle in bloomers will find The Sterling the ideal Bicycle. "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
The ‘official uniform’ consisted of a blue skirt and walking bloomers, a white blouse, a hat, walking shoes, a mackintosh, and a sweater.
At one point Miss Drexel "seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers," throws the skirt under the wheels to give the machine's wheels purchase. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
Late bloomer who has developed into an effective edge rusher from the strongside linebacker position. USATODAY.com - Linebackers: Hawk perched over quite a flock
A bee in her butt, a burr in her bloomers.
If you are feeling crafty, the cute collection, which includes dresses, rompers, bloomers and beanies, is available as kits. Times, Sunday Times
By modern, cult-of-youth standards, Burgess was a late bloomer as a writer, not getting published until he was 35.
A late bloomer, the diminutive Pompey took up track for the first time after her family migrated to the US in 1992, following in the footsteps of her younger sister Allison.
Conservative Kento was a late bloomer in terms of sexual orientation, not even considering the possibility that he was gay until he met cynical, campy Akira, who probably twigged to his gayness in the womb. 18 « May « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
To encourage growth and additional flushes of flowers, feed repeat bloomers with a complete fertilizer.
The white bird may flower anytime but tends to be more of a winter bloomer.
She clearly doesn't know that in English bloomers means big pants or mistakes. The Guardian World News
If my memory serves me correctly - and I know it does - these were the same "rational folk" who went into flipping CONNIPTIONS at the possibility of ladies shortening their long skirts, revealing neither ankles thick nor ankles thin, but perfectly modest, fully gathered, Turkish trowsers - that is, the Bloomer Costume. Dust Ho! - A Dress A Day
My mom said I was a late bloomer because I didn't start actually ‘liking’ boys till I was in 7th grade.
Prune spring bloomers in early summer, right after they finish flowering.
Bar iron from a local "bloomery" or perhaps "Sweet" (Swede) iron brought from Philadelphia furnished the material for nails, cut or forged by hand, horseshoes, plows, wagon tires, grain scythes, hinges, locks, etc. From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina
At one point Miss Drexel "seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers," throws the skirt under the wheels to give the machine's wheels purchase. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
As a brother who considers himself a late bloomer, I did not achieve my bachelor's degree until I was 32 in January 1995.
See, I was not just a late bloomer, I was a very late bloomer.
He parodied my groping stumble across the stage to the podium and gathered up the skirt to reveal hairy legs and bloomers.
She said: ‘We had a navy gym slip (which had to touch the ground while kneeling) and white blouse, thick navy fleecy lined bloomers plus pocket, lisle stockings, velour hats, navy coats and blazers with a red enamelled badge.’
To encourage growth and additional flushes of flowers, feed repeat bloomers with a complete fertilizer.
Typically, colorful annual flowers dominate these gardens because they are such enthusiastic bloomers.
a night bloomer
Late bloomers are usually average guys when young.
I hate the phrase late bloomers ," our gawky heroine laments. The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
The first purpose made swimsuits of modern history consisted of a long-sleeved, bloused tunic buttoned up the front, cinched at the waist, and worn over baggy bloomers and black stockings.

How To Use Bloomer In A Sentence

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