lad's love
Britishnoun
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The huge weeping ash, although now bereft of leaves, is a great feature, and the high box borders divide large squares of ground, wherein good old bushes of lavender, rue and lad's love grow profusely.
From Project Gutenberg
Lad′die, a little lad: a boy.—Lad's love, a provincial name of the southernwood.
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It was there they had their games of barley-break, blindman's buff and the merry cushion dance during the long summer evenings; and when dusk fell they would stroll homeward through the lanes sweet with flowering hedges, each one of them all carrying a posy from Deb Thornbury's garden—for where else grew such wondrous clove-pinks, ragged lady, lad's love, sweet-william and Queen Anne's lace, as there?
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Anyone can base a sketch around Rambo or The Terminator but no other double act in the world would bother spoofing a gritty 60s drama about a Yorkshire lad's love for his pet kestrel – Vic's version of Colin Welland is stunningly accurate.
From The Guardian
He's the sure morning after this dark dream; Clear daylight and west wind of a lad's love; With all his golden pride, for my dull hours, Still climbing sunward!
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