love-in-idleness

noun

1. another name for the wild pansy

Example Sentences

"Love-In-Idleness" has passed into a proverb, and lovers, somehow, are not generally supposed to be industrious.

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Shakespeare said maidens called it "love-in-idleness," and Drayton named it "heartsease."

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The name Love-in-idleness should be Love-in-idle if the metre could have allowed it.

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