English daisy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of English daisy
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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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
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
In this room, one morning, late in Lent, Leila Dick sat, looking as out of place as an English daisy in a tropical jungle.
From Contrary Mary by Bailey, Temple
And we saw it was a white English daisy, ringed with red.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred
Like the English daisy, it grows everywhere, and the sight of its bright starry blossoms delights every eye.
From In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland
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