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Canterbury bells
noun
, (used with a singular or plural verb)
- a plant, Campanula medium, cultivated for its showy, bell-shaped violet-blue, pink, or white flowers in loose clusters.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Canterbury bells1
First recorded in 1570–80
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Example Sentences
And the girls decorated the tables with flowers—blue larkspur and white canterbury bells.
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The Canterbury Bells should be six inches across in the fall, and the next year about two feet high.
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The gladiolas, canterbury bells, gillie flowers and fox gloves grow as prim as in a conservative English garden.
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The meadows on the hillside are full of yarrow and canterbury bells; everythings in bloom.
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Mr. Hawkins: We have three plants, hollyhocks, digitalis and canterbury bells, and nearly all have the same trouble with them.
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