lady's-smock

British  

noun

1. Also called: cuckooflower.  a N temperate plant, Cardamine pratensis, with white or rose-pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

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Example Sentences

One which was marshy was white for weeks together with the lady's-smock or cuckoo-flower.

From Round About a Great Estate by Jefferies, Richard

When she gathered her first posy of lady's-smock in the long water meadow near the mill, the little milk-white flowers said, "Why have you been away from us so long?"

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

Tar is used in the sheepfold, just as it used to be when sweet Dowsabell went forth to gather honeysuckle and lady's-smock nearly three centuries since.

From Round About a Great Estate by Jefferies, Richard

“Search in the fields for a lady’s-smock; Where could you find you a prettier frock?”

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-19 by Seaman, Owen, Sir