lady's mantle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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We pulled fistfuls of rosebay willow, yarrow and lady’s mantle.
From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2019
In an interview with Vogue, she complained that varieties of Alchemilla, a herbaceous perennial commonly known as lady’s mantle, were “well known in England and, I think, not enough appreciated in America.”
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2014
Nearby there’s a four-square garden, with fairy roses surrounded by annuals like tulips and alyssum and — typical for Revolutionary War-era homes — herbs, with lady’s mantle and chive among them, and Egyptian onions.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2011
The tailors, fifteen years hence, seemed to have borrowed, in the construction of the coat, very liberally from the lady's mantle of 1893.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George
Rubigo, the ferrugineous powder sprinkled under the leaves frequent in lady's mantle, alchemilla, &c.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus
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