eglantine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of eglantine
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French; Old French aiglent (< Vulgar Latin *aculentum, neuter of *aculentus prickly, equivalent to Latin acu ( s ) needle + -lentus adj. suffix) + -ine -ine 1
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Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: .
From Time Magazine Archive
The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
I look'd, and look'd, and still with new delight, Such joy my soul, such pleasures fill'd my sight; And the fresh eglantine exhaled a breath, Whose odours were of power to raise from death.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Rose, perhaps, for there had been something of a dewy eglantine about her.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
Here was moss, dead leaves, many varieties of creepers, sumac, wild grapevine, and now and again eglantine, its flat, pink-white blossoms brightening the heavy shade.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey
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