English daisy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of English daisy
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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She had a slim, round throat, and the English daisy face it upheld caused it to suggest to the mind the stem of a flower.
From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Spenser's genius was country-less as Ariel; search ever so diligently, you will not find an English daisy in all his enchanted forests.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander
An American cowslip is not an English cowslip, an American primrose is no English primrose, and the English daisy is no country friend of ours in America.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
And Chaucer, speaking of our English daisy, saith "Si douce est la Marguerite."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
In one of the parks we saw the little English daisy, but that was the same "wee crimson-tipped flower" that it ever was.
From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)
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