Quaker-ladies
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Quaker-ladies
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Picture dog-tooth violets, spring beauties, bellwort, Quaker-ladies, and great tufts of violets, shading from white to deepest blue, in such a setting!
From The Garden, You, and I by Wright, Mabel Osgood
Her sisters bring the gifts—Spring, wind-flowers, Solomon's-Seal, Dutchman's-breeches, Quaker-ladies, and trailing arbutus, that smells as divinely as the true May.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard
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