prairie rose
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of prairie rose
An Americanism dating back to 1815–25
Example Sentences
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In one pudgy hand she carried a slightly smashed prairie rose, in the other a bent wild iris.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
There were two crabbed little windows in front, for it could boast of but one story, and a narrow green door, over which a prairie rose bush clustered, as if to hide its infirmity.
From The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)
She was ignorant of her beauty as a prairie rose.
From The Way of the Wind by Norris, Zoe Anderson
She was a true child of the wilderness, a girl who grew, as the wild prairie rose grew, not on account of innumerable exigencies, accidents and hardships, but in spite of them.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice
On a couple of fan shaped lattices, in which I take a little pride as my own handiwork, a honey-suckle on one side of the church-door and a prairie rose on the other are planted.
From Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. by Abbott, Lyman
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