lad's love

British  

noun

1. another name for southernwood

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Example Sentences

The huge weeping ash, although now bereft of leaves, is a great feature, and the high box borders divide large squares of ground, wherein good old bushes of lavender, rue and lad's love grow profusely.

From Project Gutenberg

Lad′die, a little lad: a boy.—Lad's love, a provincial name of the southernwood.

From Project Gutenberg

It was there they had their games of barley-break, blindman's buff and the merry cushion dance during the long summer evenings; and when dusk fell they would stroll homeward through the lanes sweet with flowering hedges, each one of them all carrying a posy from Deb Thornbury's garden—for where else grew such wondrous clove-pinks, ragged lady, lad's love, sweet-william and Queen Anne's lace, as there?

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Anyone can base a sketch around Rambo or The Terminator but no other double act in the world would bother spoofing a gritty 60s drama about a Yorkshire lad's love for his pet kestrel – Vic's version of Colin Welland is stunningly accurate.

From The Guardian

Sweet old-fashioned flowers and flowering shrubs like lad's love were everywhere, and a little green carpet of camomile was spread in the center of the place for the fairies.

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