London pride

British  

noun

1. a saxifragaceous plant, a hybrid between Saxifraga spathularis and S. umbrosa, having a basal rosette of leaves and pinkish-white flowers

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London pride

They would show the stuff of London pride.

From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

Since Nell Gwyn no such scented cognomen, redolent of cuckoo's boots, London pride, blood-red poppies, purple fox-gloves, lemon stocks, and vermillion zinnias, has blown its delicate odour across our scene....

From Interpreters by Carl Van Vechten

Nothing grew in the rockery except London pride and snails.

From The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. (Edith) Nesbit

A sound of harmonium and girls' hymn issuing out of the ruin, on which grow against the sky great tufts of fennel, of stuff like London pride and of budding lentisk.

From The Spirit of Rome by Vernon Lee

But the mail is rattling along, to the music of the guard's horn and the quadrupedant sound of the horses, heedless alike of local verjuice and of London pride.

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson