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
Johnson's "kingspear, Jews-ear, lady-mantle, and lady-bedstraw," are no more proper, than Webster's "bear's-wort, lion's foot, lady's mantle, and lady's bed-straw."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
In addition to these, the same work contains etchings of the following brasses:—Gunby, Lincoln., two dogs with plain collars at the bottom of the lady's mantle, 1405.
From Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 by Various
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