love-in-idleness

British  

noun

1. another name for the wild pansy

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Example Sentences

Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell; It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

From Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess by McMahan, Anna Benneson

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower,— Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wound,— And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

Apple, crab, chestnut, cypress, hazel, oats, onion, love-in-idleness, mustard, parsley, roses, rush, sedges, walnut.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

"It would serve you right," said she, truculently, "if some one were to rub your eyes with love-in-idleness, to make you dote upon the next live creature that you see."

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry

Stocks, red-hot-pokers, larkspur, polyanthus, peonies and dahlias caught the eye which was lured back to the humbler beauties of mignonette, forget-me-not, love-in-idleness, and a generous profusion of roses.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley