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Love-in-idleness   /ləv-ɪn-ˈaɪdəlnəs/   Listen
Love-in-idleness

noun
1.
A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived.  Synonyms: heartsease, Johnny-jump-up, pink of my John, Viola tricolor, wild pansy.






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"Love-in-idleness" Quotes from Famous Books



... shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower,— Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wound,— And maidens call it love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower; the herb I show'd thee once; The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb: and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard



Words linked to "Love-in-idleness" :   heartsease, Viola tricolor, Johnny-jump-up, pink of my John, wild pansy, viola



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