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

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

Here, too, we gathered sweet blue violets, yellow buttercups, Ladies' traces and London pride, with all the beautiful variety of simple meadow flowers, and entwined them into pretty wreaths, or fragrant boquets.

From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Abigail Stanley Hanna

And then, in little square patches all round the garden, were planted London pride, blue bachelor's buttons, yellow marigolds, tall larkspur, many-coloured asters, hollyhocks and stocks.

From Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Sara Cone Bryant

And that's London pride, and that's ragged robin.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

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